evidence of age inequality

Question 1

areas of life ?

Answer 1

1. health
2. work and pay

Question 2

3 sociologist/examples for health ?

Answer 2

1. age UK
2. 2004 NHS inpatient survey
3. hockey and James

Question 3

age UK?

Answer 3

lack of expenditure in health (dementia) for the elderly, therefore inequality in the amount of adequate care funded for the elderly

Question 4

2004 NHS inpatient survey

Answer 4

oldest patients aged 81 and above are less Lilley than those in middle age 65+ to describe their care as ‘excellent’ - feeling disadvantaged

Question 5

hockey and James ?

Answer 5

found the elderly are ‘infantilised’ and treated like children in institutional care, patronised and assumed to be senile

Question 6

3 sociologists/examples for work and pay ?

Answer 6

1. ray
2. women and equalities committee 2018
3. TUC report 2023

Question 7

ray?

Answer 7

employers assume lower competence from older workers which leads to exclusion from workplace

Question 8

women and equalities committee 2018?

Answer 8

over 1 mill people over 50 have been pushed out of the workplace with older people disproportionality likely to be selected fro redundancy

Question 9

TUC report 2023?

Answer 9

young people are also much more likely to be on zero hour contracts which means they are workers who miss out on essential rights such as flexible working or the right to return back after maternity