Debora Price
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debora Price |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debora |
| FAMILY NAME | Price |
| SIGNATURE | PRICE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3398-6083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Limits of Signposting: Financial Capacity and Responsibility in Later Life Social Care
The ability to manage money is crucial for independent living in later life, yet financial capacity often declines with age and cognitive impairment. This study explored how social care practitioners in England understand and enact responsibilities when older people experience difficulties managing money. Data from 28 semi-structured interviews with practitioners across local authorities, housing, homecare and voluntary organizations were analyze…
A little bit of empathy and compassion would go a long way: Emotional and Psychosocial Experiences of Money Management and Cognitive Decline in Later Life
The ability to manage money is essential for independent functioning but highly sensitive to cognitive decline. Managing money involves more than deploying skills rationally; it is influenced by a range of emotional and psychosocial factors. There is relatively little knowledge about how older adults, families and care professionals working with older people navigate and experience potential challenges of declining mental capacity to manage money…
Changes in labour market histories and their relationship with paid work around state pension age: Evidence from three British longitudinal studies
Many countries have implemented policies to extend working lives in response to population ageing, yet there remains little understanding of what drives paid work in later life, nor how this is changing over time. This paper utilises the 1988/89 Survey of Retirement and Retirement Plans, the 1999 British Household Panel Survey and the 2008 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, to investigate drivers of paid work in the ten years surrounding state…
Care and caring among ageing migrant workers in two informal settlements in Harare
In this study of older migrants living in informal settlements in Harare, we seek to understand what care and caring means for older people ageing far from their place of origin in conditions of informality in a country with no formal care infrastructure. We find that care relations derive from histories of migration, community, kinship, aspiration, displacement and disenfranchisement, with the provision of security within insecure systems core t…
Pathways of participation in paid and unpaid work in mid to later life in the United Kingdom
Policy responses to population ageing have focused on lengthening working lives, overlooking inequalities in older adults’ participation in unpaid activities. This paper examines participation in paid and unpaid activities between the ages of 55 and 70 to answer two questions: how do people navigate pathways of paid work, informal care, volunteering, civic participation and housework in mid to later life?; and how do these pathways relate to gend…
Changes in health and social well-being in the Covid-19 clinically vulnerable older English population during the pandemic
BACKGROUND: People with specific health profiles and diseases (such as diabetes, lung and heart conditions) have been classified as 'clinically vulnerable' (CV) to COVID-19, that is, at higher risk of severe illness and mortality from COVID-19, and were targeted for shielding. However, there is as yet little evidence on how the pandemic and shielding impacted the health and social well-being of CV older people. METHODS: We used data from wave 9 (…
How do people think about later life when making workplace pension saving decisions
Returns to work after retirement: A prospective study of unretirement in the United Kingdom
Despite the complexity of the retirement process, most research treats it as an abrupt and one-way transition. Our study takes a different approach by examining retirement reversals (unretirement) and their predictors. Using the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2008), and following participants into Understanding Society (2010–2015), we undertake a survival analysis to investigate retirement reversals among Britons aged 50–69 years who were b…
Politicisation in later life: Experience and motivations of older people participating in a protest for the first time
With demographic ageing, political activity of older people is increasingly becoming relevant to political science. However, little is known about the possibility of and rationale for politicisation in later life. This article uses in-depth qualitative interviews with older first-time participants in a successful protest against the closure of a charity-run day centre to investigate how and when such politicisation might occur. We find that in re…
Relationship between employment histories and frailty trajectories in later life: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
BACKGROUND: Given the acceleration of population ageing and policy changes to extend working lives, evidence is needed on the ability of older adults to work for longer. To understand more about the health impacts of work, this study examined the relationship between employment histories before retirement and trajectories of frailty thereafter. METHODS: The sample comprised 2765 women and 1621 men from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. We…
Is being in paid work beyond state pension age beneficial for health? Evidence from England using a life-course approach
BACKGROUND: Given the current policy emphasis in many Western societies on extending working lives, we investigated the health effects of being in paid work beyond state pension age (SPA). Until now, work has largely focused on the health of those who exit the labour force early. METHODS: Our data come from waves 2-4 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, including the life history interview at wave 3. Using logistic and linear regression m…
What Drives National Differences in Intensive Grandparental Childcare in Europe
Objectives. Grandparents play an important role in looking after grandchildren, although intensive grandparental childcare varies considerably across Europe. Few studies have explicitly investigated the extent to which such cross-national variations are associated with national level differences in individual demographic and socio-economic distributions along with contextual-structural and cultural factors (e.g., variations in female labor force …
How important are state transfers for reducing poverty rates in later life
Financial welfare in later life is of prime concern as the funding of pensions and care rises up policy agendas. In this context, work and family histories are well known to impact on late-life income, generally reducing state and private pensions for women. In a political context where benefits are under threat as part of the retrenchment of the welfare state, we consider two key questions. First, how do state pension and benefit transfers inter…
What Drives National Differences in Intensive Grandparental Childcare in Europe
Encouraging older women to remain in paid work is likely to have an impact on grandchild care which in turn may affect mothers' employment, particularly in Southern European countries where there is little formal childcare
Financial planning for social care in later life: The ‘shadow’ of fourth age dependency
As policy makers in the United Kingdom and many other countries grapple with financing the needs of an ageing population, financial planning for social care in later life is high on political agendas. We draw on qualitative research with older couples in the United Kingdom about their intimate money practices to analyse the day-to-day meanings attributed to money, saving and consumption in the context of financial planning for later life and deat…
Ethnicity as a Determining Factor for Instrumental Support in Mid and Later Life in England and Wales
Our analyses suggest few ethnic group differences in instrumental support once need and enabling factors were taken into account. Such findings are contrary to the belief that minority groups exchange more informal support and therefore have less need for formal services. The Andersen-Newman model is useful for guiding the analysis of support both given and received
Coping with Age‐related Threats to Role Identity: Older Couples and the Management of Household Money
As more couples live together into old age, difficult decisions have to be made about money matters, including the financing of late‐life care. This paper analyses in‐depth qualitative data from six older heterosexual couples, part of a wider study concerning money management in later life. Research when these cohorts were younger found that the organisation of money management within households was specialised and highly gendered, leading to sub…
Behind Closed Doors: Older Couples and the Gendered Management of Household Money
As couples survive longer and live together into older age they face many issues of financial management, including daily money management on reduced and/or reducing income, and paying for care or the additional costs of disability. Yet household money management is highly gendered, especially for older age groups. This has implications for the ability of women, particularly, to manage financial decisions in the face of their partner's illness, o…
The pensions White Paper: Taking account of gender
Many women face severe obstacles in accumulating adequate income in later life. The pensions White Paper heralds substantive reform of the pension system, with certain elements assisting women in future to build pension entitlements. The extent to which the reforms will have the desired effect is, however, unclear since the system remains complex and means-tested benefits will remain a substantial element of pensioner income for many in the popul…
Closing the Gender Gap in Retirement Income: What Difference Will Recent UK Pension Reforms Make
The second report of the Pensions Commission sought to establish a framework for a sustainable pension system for future generations of pensioners in the UK. The framework has been largely accepted by government in their recent White Paper, Security in Retirement: Towards a New Pension System (2006). Legislation will follow. The Commission and the government have made a number of claims about how their proposals will benefit women. Reforms have b…
Gender and Generational Continuity: Breadwinners, Caregivers and Pension Provision in the UK
The UK is considered a ’male breadwinner/female part-time carer’ state due to men and women conforming to stereotypical gender roles within partnerships, and welfare policies reflecting and reinforcing this gender division. Using data from the General Household Surveys 2001 and 2002, this article shows that mothers continue to be markedly disadvantaged in participating in the accumulation of pensions compared to women who have never had children.…
Why are older women in the UK poor?
Income in later life is an important factor in ensuring good health, quality of life, social engagement and subjective well-being, yet it is now well known that women in later life are much poorer than men. In this article, data from the General Household Surveys 2001 and 2002 is used to show that this is largely the result of women's individual, and hidden, poverty within marriage. Dependency on men for income during the working life combines wi…
What Drives National Differences in Intensive Grandparental Childcare in Europe
Encouraging older women to remain in paid work is likely to have an impact on grandchild care which in turn may affect mothers' employment, particularly in Southern European countries where there is little formal childcare
Closing the Gender Gap in Retirement Income: What Difference Will Recent UK Pension Reforms Make
The second report of the Pensions Commission sought to establish a framework for a sustainable pension system for future generations of pensioners in the UK. The framework has been largely accepted by government in their recent White Paper, Security in Retirement: Towards a New Pension System (2006). Legislation will follow. The Commission and the government have made a number of claims about how their proposals will benefit women. Reforms have b…
Behind Closed Doors: Older Couples and the Gendered Management of Household Money
As couples survive longer and live together into older age they face many issues of financial management, including daily money management on reduced and/or reducing income, and paying for care or the additional costs of disability. Yet household money management is highly gendered, especially for older age groups. This has implications for the ability of women, particularly, to manage financial decisions in the face of their partner's illness, o…
How do people think about later life when making workplace pension saving decisions
Returns to work after retirement: A prospective study of unretirement in the United Kingdom
Despite the complexity of the retirement process, most research treats it as an abrupt and one-way transition. Our study takes a different approach by examining retirement reversals (unretirement) and their predictors. Using the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2008), and following participants into Understanding Society (2010–2015), we undertake a survival analysis to investigate retirement reversals among Britons aged 50–69 years who were b…
Financial planning for social care in later life: The ‘shadow’ of fourth age dependency
As policy makers in the United Kingdom and many other countries grapple with financing the needs of an ageing population, financial planning for social care in later life is high on political agendas. We draw on qualitative research with older couples in the United Kingdom about their intimate money practices to analyse the day-to-day meanings attributed to money, saving and consumption in the context of financial planning for later life and deat…
Is being in paid work beyond state pension age beneficial for health? Evidence from England using a life-course approach
BACKGROUND: Given the current policy emphasis in many Western societies on extending working lives, we investigated the health effects of being in paid work beyond state pension age (SPA). Until now, work has largely focused on the health of those who exit the labour force early. METHODS: Our data come from waves 2-4 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, including the life history interview at wave 3. Using logistic and linear regression m…
Relationship between employment histories and frailty trajectories in later life: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
BACKGROUND: Given the acceleration of population ageing and policy changes to extend working lives, evidence is needed on the ability of older adults to work for longer. To understand more about the health impacts of work, this study examined the relationship between employment histories before retirement and trajectories of frailty thereafter. METHODS: The sample comprised 2765 women and 1621 men from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. We…
How important are state transfers for reducing poverty rates in later life
Financial welfare in later life is of prime concern as the funding of pensions and care rises up policy agendas. In this context, work and family histories are well known to impact on late-life income, generally reducing state and private pensions for women. In a political context where benefits are under threat as part of the retrenchment of the welfare state, we consider two key questions. First, how do state pension and benefit transfers inter…
Politicisation in later life: Experience and motivations of older people participating in a protest for the first time
With demographic ageing, political activity of older people is increasingly becoming relevant to political science. However, little is known about the possibility of and rationale for politicisation in later life. This article uses in-depth qualitative interviews with older first-time participants in a successful protest against the closure of a charity-run day centre to investigate how and when such politicisation might occur. We find that in re…
Ethnicity as a Determining Factor for Instrumental Support in Mid and Later Life in England and Wales
Our analyses suggest few ethnic group differences in instrumental support once need and enabling factors were taken into account. Such findings are contrary to the belief that minority groups exchange more informal support and therefore have less need for formal services. The Andersen-Newman model is useful for guiding the analysis of support both given and received
Coping with Age‐related Threats to Role Identity: Older Couples and the Management of Household Money
As more couples live together into old age, difficult decisions have to be made about money matters, including the financing of late‐life care. This paper analyses in‐depth qualitative data from six older heterosexual couples, part of a wider study concerning money management in later life. Research when these cohorts were younger found that the organisation of money management within households was specialised and highly gendered, leading to sub…
Changes in health and social well-being in the Covid-19 clinically vulnerable older English population during the pandemic
BACKGROUND: People with specific health profiles and diseases (such as diabetes, lung and heart conditions) have been classified as 'clinically vulnerable' (CV) to COVID-19, that is, at higher risk of severe illness and mortality from COVID-19, and were targeted for shielding. However, there is as yet little evidence on how the pandemic and shielding impacted the health and social well-being of CV older people. METHODS: We used data from wave 9 (…
Gender and Generational Continuity: Breadwinners, Caregivers and Pension Provision in the UK
The UK is considered a ’male breadwinner/female part-time carer’ state due to men and women conforming to stereotypical gender roles within partnerships, and welfare policies reflecting and reinforcing this gender division. Using data from the General Household Surveys 2001 and 2002, this article shows that mothers continue to be markedly disadvantaged in participating in the accumulation of pensions compared to women who have never had children.…
Why are older women in the UK poor?
Income in later life is an important factor in ensuring good health, quality of life, social engagement and subjective well-being, yet it is now well known that women in later life are much poorer than men. In this article, data from the General Household Surveys 2001 and 2002 is used to show that this is largely the result of women's individual, and hidden, poverty within marriage. Dependency on men for income during the working life combines wi…
The pensions White Paper: Taking account of gender
Many women face severe obstacles in accumulating adequate income in later life. The pensions White Paper heralds substantive reform of the pension system, with certain elements assisting women in future to build pension entitlements. The extent to which the reforms will have the desired effect is, however, unclear since the system remains complex and means-tested benefits will remain a substantial element of pensioner income for many in the popul…
Closing the Gender Gap in Retirement Income: What Difference Will Recent UK Pension Reforms Make
The second report of the Pensions Commission sought to establish a framework for a sustainable pension system for future generations of pensioners in the UK. The framework has been largely accepted by government in their recent White Paper, Security in Retirement: Towards a New Pension System (2006). Legislation will follow. The Commission and the government have made a number of claims about how their proposals will benefit women. Reforms have b…
Behind Closed Doors: Older Couples and the Gendered Management of Household Money
As couples survive longer and live together into older age they face many issues of financial management, including daily money management on reduced and/or reducing income, and paying for care or the additional costs of disability. Yet household money management is highly gendered, especially for older age groups. This has implications for the ability of women, particularly, to manage financial decisions in the face of their partner's illness, o…
Ethnicity as a Determining Factor for Instrumental Support in Mid and Later Life in England and Wales
Our analyses suggest few ethnic group differences in instrumental support once need and enabling factors were taken into account. Such findings are contrary to the belief that minority groups exchange more informal support and therefore have less need for formal services. The Andersen-Newman model is useful for guiding the analysis of support both given and received
Coping with Age‐related Threats to Role Identity: Older Couples and the Management of Household Money
As more couples live together into old age, difficult decisions have to be made about money matters, including the financing of late‐life care. This paper analyses in‐depth qualitative data from six older heterosexual couples, part of a wider study concerning money management in later life. Research when these cohorts were younger found that the organisation of money management within households was specialised and highly gendered, leading to sub…
Financial planning for social care in later life: The ‘shadow’ of fourth age dependency
As policy makers in the United Kingdom and many other countries grapple with financing the needs of an ageing population, financial planning for social care in later life is high on political agendas. We draw on qualitative research with older couples in the United Kingdom about their intimate money practices to analyse the day-to-day meanings attributed to money, saving and consumption in the context of financial planning for later life and deat…
What Drives National Differences in Intensive Grandparental Childcare in Europe
Encouraging older women to remain in paid work is likely to have an impact on grandchild care which in turn may affect mothers' employment, particularly in Southern European countries where there is little formal childcare
What Drives National Differences in Intensive Grandparental Childcare in Europe
Objectives. Grandparents play an important role in looking after grandchildren, although intensive grandparental childcare varies considerably across Europe. Few studies have explicitly investigated the extent to which such cross-national variations are associated with national level differences in individual demographic and socio-economic distributions along with contextual-structural and cultural factors (e.g., variations in female labor force …
How important are state transfers for reducing poverty rates in later life
Financial welfare in later life is of prime concern as the funding of pensions and care rises up policy agendas. In this context, work and family histories are well known to impact on late-life income, generally reducing state and private pensions for women. In a political context where benefits are under threat as part of the retrenchment of the welfare state, we consider two key questions. First, how do state pension and benefit transfers inter…
Politicisation in later life: Experience and motivations of older people participating in a protest for the first time
With demographic ageing, political activity of older people is increasingly becoming relevant to political science. However, little is known about the possibility of and rationale for politicisation in later life. This article uses in-depth qualitative interviews with older first-time participants in a successful protest against the closure of a charity-run day centre to investigate how and when such politicisation might occur. We find that in re…
Relationship between employment histories and frailty trajectories in later life: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
BACKGROUND: Given the acceleration of population ageing and policy changes to extend working lives, evidence is needed on the ability of older adults to work for longer. To understand more about the health impacts of work, this study examined the relationship between employment histories before retirement and trajectories of frailty thereafter. METHODS: The sample comprised 2765 women and 1621 men from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. We…
Is being in paid work beyond state pension age beneficial for health? Evidence from England using a life-course approach
BACKGROUND: Given the current policy emphasis in many Western societies on extending working lives, we investigated the health effects of being in paid work beyond state pension age (SPA). Until now, work has largely focused on the health of those who exit the labour force early. METHODS: Our data come from waves 2-4 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, including the life history interview at wave 3. Using logistic and linear regression m…
Returns to work after retirement: A prospective study of unretirement in the United Kingdom
Despite the complexity of the retirement process, most research treats it as an abrupt and one-way transition. Our study takes a different approach by examining retirement reversals (unretirement) and their predictors. Using the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2008), and following participants into Understanding Society (2010–2015), we undertake a survival analysis to investigate retirement reversals among Britons aged 50–69 years who were b…
How do people think about later life when making workplace pension saving decisions
Changes in health and social well-being in the Covid-19 clinically vulnerable older English population during the pandemic
BACKGROUND: People with specific health profiles and diseases (such as diabetes, lung and heart conditions) have been classified as 'clinically vulnerable' (CV) to COVID-19, that is, at higher risk of severe illness and mortality from COVID-19, and were targeted for shielding. However, there is as yet little evidence on how the pandemic and shielding impacted the health and social well-being of CV older people. METHODS: We used data from wave 9 (…
Care and caring among ageing migrant workers in two informal settlements in Harare
In this study of older migrants living in informal settlements in Harare, we seek to understand what care and caring means for older people ageing far from their place of origin in conditions of informality in a country with no formal care infrastructure. We find that care relations derive from histories of migration, community, kinship, aspiration, displacement and disenfranchisement, with the provision of security within insecure systems core t…
Pathways of participation in paid and unpaid work in mid to later life in the United Kingdom
Policy responses to population ageing have focused on lengthening working lives, overlooking inequalities in older adults’ participation in unpaid activities. This paper examines participation in paid and unpaid activities between the ages of 55 and 70 to answer two questions: how do people navigate pathways of paid work, informal care, volunteering, civic participation and housework in mid to later life?; and how do these pathways relate to gend…
Changes in labour market histories and their relationship with paid work around state pension age: Evidence from three British longitudinal studies
Many countries have implemented policies to extend working lives in response to population ageing, yet there remains little understanding of what drives paid work in later life, nor how this is changing over time. This paper utilises the 1988/89 Survey of Retirement and Retirement Plans, the 1999 British Household Panel Survey and the 2008 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, to investigate drivers of paid work in the ten years surrounding state…
A little bit of empathy and compassion would go a long way: Emotional and Psychosocial Experiences of Money Management and Cognitive Decline in Later Life
The ability to manage money is essential for independent functioning but highly sensitive to cognitive decline. Managing money involves more than deploying skills rationally; it is influenced by a range of emotional and psychosocial factors. There is relatively little knowledge about how older adults, families and care professionals working with older people navigate and experience potential challenges of declining mental capacity to manage money…
The Limits of Signposting: Financial Capacity and Responsibility in Later Life Social Care
The ability to manage money is crucial for independent living in later life, yet financial capacity often declines with age and cognitive impairment. This study explored how social care practitioners in England understand and enact responsibilities when older people experience difficulties managing money. Data from 28 semi-structured interviews with practitioners across local authorities, housing, homecare and voluntary organizations were analyze…
Economics (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (12 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Pension (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Finance (7 works)