Elderly Disadvantage In Relation To Health

Question 1

What did greengross say?

Answer 1

• NHS is guilty of institutional ageism because older patients treated differently from the young
• young person will have a clear care plan that includes maintaining links with their family but the elderly will be denied clinical treatments and often anything offered will be end of life care

Question 2

What did the royal college of surgeons and age uk say?

Answer 2

• in some areas of uk no one over the age of 75 is being offered crucial surgery for breast cancer and very few undergo bowel dance surgery or have knee and hip replacements

Question 3

What did the human rights watch say?

Answer 3

• elderly denied crucial services or had services significantly reduced causing their health and wellbeing to decline
• the funding local governments receive from the central government to active social care other services has fallen by almost half between 2010-11 and 2017-18