Africa
The Oxford Institute’s research programme on Africa includes:
- An in-depth exploratory study of the family and intergenerational impacts of migration among Nigerian migrant health care workers in the UK eldercare sector and their families. (Aboderin and Harper)
- Collaboration in the World Health Organization Ageing and Life Course Programme (WHO ALC), a multi-country study on Integrated Health Responses to Rapid Population Ageing (INTRA). (Aboderin)
- An in-depth investigation of the “Dimensions and Social Determinants of Older People’s Health in Nigeria and Implications for Policy”. (Aboderin)
- Intergenerational issues in South Africa in general and in particular the configuration and reconfiguration of these relationships in the context of HIV/AIDS. (Hoffman)
- Housing and Older People in South Africa – exploring a continuum of informal and residential care. (Hoffman)
- Falls / Musculoskeletal disease and Older People in sub-Saharan Africa (Aboderin, Howse, Hoffman):
- a prevalence study of arthritis, back pain, osteoporosis, falls and fractures
- a policy research study on the need for prevention services.