Evidence Of Elderly Disadvantage

Question 1

What are examples of elderly disadvantage in workplace?

Answer 1

1. Johnson
2. The national pensioners convention
3. Barron and Norris

Question 2

What did Johnson say?

Answer 2

• suggested that ageism occurs in the workplace in the UK, elderly find it more difficult to find jobs

Question 3

What did the national pensioners convention say?

Answer 3

• 1 in 5 older people live below the poverty line

Question 4

What did Barron and Norris say?

Answer 4

• elderly are more likely to be found in the secondary labour market which is defined by low pay, low status, lack of chance of promotion and few fringe benefits

Question 5

What are examples of elderly disadvantages in relation to health?

Answer 5

1. Greengross
2. The royal college of surgeons and age uk
3. The human rights watch

Question 6

What did greengross say?

Answer 6

• nhs is guilty of institutional ageism as older patients are treated differently from the young, elderly denied clinical treatments

Question 7

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

Answer 7

• 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

Question 8

What did the human rights watch say?

Answer 8

• elderly denied crucial services causing their health and wellbeing to decline

Question 9

What are the examples of elderly disadvantages in the media?

Answer 9

1. Landis
2. Carrigan and Szmigin
3. Digital generation gap

Question 10

What did landis say?

Answer 10

• elderly depicted as one dimensional often stereotyped as wise or mentally deficient

Question 11

What did Carrigan and Szmigin say?

Answer 11

• older people are ignored in media advertising and when they are included, they are stereotyped as smelly and incontinent

Question 12

What did the digital generation gap say?

Answer 12

• causes problems with employment as elderly may be less comfortable using technology than younger people who have grown up with it

Question 13

What are the examples of elderly disadvantages in relation to crime?

Answer 13

1. Financial Times
2. Age uk

Question 14

What did the Financial Times say?

Answer 14

• the number of over 60s in jailed topped 4000 for the first time on record, more than double the forgery 10 years ago

Question 15

What did age uk say?

Answer 15

• of those targeted by fraud scams, the financial loss for older victims was likely to be nearly twice as much per scam as that for younger age groups