Intergenerationality and Anticipation at Older Age in the UK Among 68-83 Year Olds, 2021

This qualitative data was collected as part of an engaged phenomenological PhD project in 10 conversational interviews with participants aged 68-83 (seven women, three men). Interviews took place over Zoom or over the phone.

Participants were asked about their important relationships, when they thought about their age, whether age mattered to them, feeling part of a generation, relating to people of different ages, how the COVID-19 pandemic had affected life, and how caring for others had affected their outlook on ageing.

Themes in these interviews include COVID-19, gratitude and privilege, parenthood and grandparenthood, intergenerational judgement, retrospection, perceptions of the life course, risk and caution, priorities, care, generations, temporality, and technology. All names are pseudonyms, either chosen by the participant or selected by the researcher.