Elderly Disadvantage On Health

Question 1

Greengross

Answer 1

NHS is guilty of institutional ageism as older patients are treated differently from the young, eg. Young person will have a clear care plan that includes maintaining links with their family but the elderly will be denied clinical treatments

Question 2

The royal college of surgeons and age uk

Answer 2

In some areas of the uk no one over the age of 75 is being offered crucial surgery for breast cancer and very few undergo bowel cancer surgery or have knee and hip replacements despite legislation making this illegal from 2012

Question 3

Human rights watch

Answer 3

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