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Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (Share) we can analyse the relationship between health and socioeconomic conditions, the so-called socioeconomic gradient in health. We focus on individuals aged 50-56 from ten European countries at two points in time – in years 2004-2006 and 2013-2015, thus comparing the gradient between two groups of cohorts. The relationship is examined with respect to four measures of health and four indicators of socioeconomic status: education, income, financial and real wealth. We confirm the strong and statistically significant relationship between both physical and mental health and socioeconomic variables but find little evidence for flattening of the gradient between cohort groups in Europe. In the case of mental health we show that the gradient in relation to financial assets among the younger cohorts has become steeper. JEL codes: I14 Health and Inequality; I15 Health and Economic Development