Acknowledgments:
The authors are grateful to Sarah Barber for her comments on earlier versions of this chapter, and to Gry Wester for her very valuable input on some of the topics covered. The chapter employs data from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which has been funded by the European Commission through FP5 (QLK6-CT-2001–00360), FP6 (SHARE-I3: RII-CT-2006–062193, COMPARE: CIT5-CT-2005–028857, SHARELIFE: CIT4-CT-2006–028812), FP7 (SHARE-PREP: GA N°211909, SHARE-LEAP: GA N°227822, SHARE M4: GA N°261982) and Horizon 2020 (SHARE-DEV3: GA N°676536, SERISS: GA N° 654221) and by DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. Additional funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the United States National Institute on Aging (U01_AG09740-13S2, P01_AG005842, P01_AG08291, P30_AG12815, R21_AG025169, Y1-AG-4553–01, IAG_BSR06-11, OGHA_04–064, HHSN271201300071C) and from various national funding sources is gratefully acknowledged (see http://www.share-project.org). We acknowledge co-funding from: NIH/NIA project 1R01AGO77280-01A1, United States, ‘A Next Generation Data Infrastructure to Understand Disparities across the Life Course’; the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), through the grants ES/S01523X/1 (IN-CARE project) and ES/ S012567/1 (ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London). The views and opinions expressed are only those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD, the European Union, the European Commission, the ESRC or the NIH/NIA.
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