Unequal Ageing: The Untold Story of Exclusion in Old Age

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Paul Cann, Malcolm Dean
Policy Press, Sep 2, 2009 - Family & Relationships - 179 pages
This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides strong evidence of the scale of current disadvantage in the UK and suggests actions that could begin to change the picture of unequal ageing. 'Unequal ageing' is aimed at all those with a serious interest in the unprecedented challenge of our ageing society. It will be of importance to policy-makers, opinion-formers, and above all to older people themselves.
 

Contents

one How social age trumped social class?
1
Thomas Scharf
25
Tables
28
three
35
comparisons of older
36
Anna Coote
53
1
67
Sue Adams
77
What does it mean to be old?
101
Why is ageing so unequal?
141
42
147
Index
159
67
173
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Malcolm Dean worked for the Guardian newspaper as roving reporter, social affairs leader writer, editorial writer, and editor of the society section for over forty years. He is also an associate member of the politics group at Nuffield College, Oxford University.

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