Start with people, places and the consequences behind the numbers.
Read data storiesGerontology, statistics, places, people
I'm Andrew Kingston. A Geordie who grew up around West Denton and Newbiggin Hall in the West End of Newcastle, I use GeroStats as my digital garden for health statistics, ageing and later life: a personal place to collect notes, data stories, methods, visualisations and unfinished thoughts about the numbers that shape how we age, how we live, and how inequality becomes visible.
What this is
A working notebook for questions that keep coming back.
I use GeroStats to work through the health-statistics questions I keep coming back to: ageing, care, disability, place and inequality. Some pieces are finished. Some are notes to myself in public. Some are data musings that are still finding their shape.
The data stories often begin personally and locally, because familiar places make public numbers harder to treat as abstract. The questions travel further than that: ageing, disability, care need and health inequality are local experiences, but they are also international research problems.
Plain-English explainers on uncertainty, health expectancy, modelling and measurement.
Explore methods explainersChoose a practical guide for the research or analysis problem in front of you.
Open the Knowledge HubExplore the models, maps, tools and public-facing work growing around GeroStats.
Browse projectsData story
I was born in D1. This map made that feel different.
A Newcastle Metro map story about deprivation, life expectancy and why local health inequality must change.
Interactive map
The hidden week being carried in plain sight.
Unpaid care-hours, deprivation, poor health and disability across Tyne and Wear.
Digital garden
Across the digital garden.
Methods, Knowledge Hub guides and project write-ups replanted here so they can keep growing.
Questions
How do people age, and why so unequally?
Across the garden, three questions keep returning: what changes over later life, how care and disability are distributed, and why place shapes both.
01 · Lives
Later life and health
How long people live, how well they live, and how health changes across later life.
02 · Support
Care and disability
The visible and hidden work of care, and the ways disability is patterned by lives, services and policy.
03 · Place
Place and inequality
Local geographies matter: streets, homes, regions and public systems shape what the averages miss.
How I examine them
Statistical methods
Modelling, uncertainty, health expectancy and simulation sit underneath every theme, making both the evidence and its limits visible.
Explore methodsAuthor
Andrew Kingston
I am a statistical epidemiologist from the North East and a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University. I work on ageing, multimorbidity, disability, care need, health expectancy and health inequalities. The site keeps that work grounded: many of the stories start close to home, but the questions do not stop at the edge of the map.
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