Summary:

For a shockingly high number of older people, growing older is not
the media's soft-focus vision of fun times and fond grandchildren but
a journey of loss: loss of work and opportunity to contribute, health
and well-being, family and friends. Over two million older people are
stuck in persistent poverty. The diseases and disabilities associated
with growing older multiply with the dramatic ageing of the
population, yet the response of communities and care systems is often
inadequate and ageism still abounds. At least one million of our
seniors feel society has left them behind and that their lives have
been reduced to survival. "Unequal Ageing" 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. This
powerful book, written by leading experts in the field, 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. The book 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 striving to develop workable solutions,
to professionals responsible for implementing those solutions, to
opinion-formers wishing to examine the way attitudes about ageing are
shaped, and above all to older people themselves.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 301 -- Sociology & anthropology

Book Details:

Physical Description: 176 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2009-09-01

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