Managing major life changes - deliberative workshop findings

The workshops were the final phase of a programme of work conducted by Ipsos MORI for the Centre for Ageing Better, looking at how different groups of people in England are currently experiencing and thinking about later life.

The report and related materials from the earlier phases of this research can be found here. Part of this work involved analysing data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing to develop six segments of the population aged 50 and over who are experiencing later life in markedly different ways, in terms of issues such as their health, finanancial security, social connections and overall wellbeing.

These segments were:

• Thriving boomers

• Downbeat boomers

• Can do and connected

• Squeezed middle aged

• Worried and disconnected

• Struggling and alone