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Patterns And Trends For Age (OLD) Flashcards

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1
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What are the three areas for inequalities for old age ?

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  • work and employment
  • poverty
  • digital world
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What are the two sections of old age for work and employment

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  • ageism/discrimination
  • retirement
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What is discrimination according to work and employment?

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Refers to prejudice or unfair treatment of a person based on characteristics such as race , age or gender

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What are the studies for discrimination in the workplace

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  • ageism in the workplace: double standards: Sontag
  • Bradley
  • Sujata Ray
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What does ageism in workplace : double standards Sontag say ?

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  • Double standards of ageing especially in television as women are required to be youthful and men are not
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What example does Sontag use for double standards?

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Moira Stuart in BBC 2007, she was retired by corporation at age 58 , while male colleague David Dimbleby 72 was allowed to carry on pass retirement age so age is reason for employment

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According to Bradley , how are old people often seen by employers at work ?

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  • less suitable
  • physically slow
  • lacking dynamic
  • not adaptable to change
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What did Sujata Ray find ?

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Ageism means exclusion from workplace, position of power and decision making because employers assume lower compotence

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According to Sujata Ray how does research sample see old people ?

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Incompetent and less intelligent

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According to Sujata Ray ,what does positive and negative attitude to elderly results to ?

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Continued socio-economic exclusion of elderly

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What is retirement?

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But employers can set a compulsory retirement age if they can justify it

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According to Arber and Ginn, retirement how is ageism reinforced?

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  • Ageism against elderly is reinforced through retirement
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What can retirement lead to according to Arber and Ginn ?

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  • loss of status
  • self-respect
  • purpose
  • loneliness
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Why do old people have a limiting working life ?

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Because employee are reluctant to invest in training them

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For poverty what are the sections ?

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  • relative poverty
  • absolute poverty
  • material deprivation
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What is material deprivation?

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Inability to afford basic resources and service

17
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According to Age UK, for relative and absolute poverty how is the proportion of poverty for old people?

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Risk of poverty for old people is disproportionately high

18
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According to Age UK , for relative and absolute poverty. How many pensioners in uk live in poverty?

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16%

19
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For fuel poverty how does this affect old people in poverty ?

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  • old people have to choose between eating or heating
  • they spend more than 10th of money on fuel bill
20
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According to material deprivation, the department for work and pensions found what ?

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800,000 pensioners aged 65 and over were in material deprivation

21
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What ya digital generational divide ?

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Clear gap between young and old in terms of their ability to use technology which leads problems in employment as older people less comfortable with technology

22
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According to Boyle, for digital generational divide what does he argue ?

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Increase in digital generational divide between old and young

23
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According Boyle, how are old labelled ?

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Digital immigrants , less likely to use digital communication

24
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Less

25
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How are young labelled according to Boyle ?

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Digital native

26
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According to Boyle , why are young people good at technology?

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  • young people are more capable of learning new skills from technology and communication
  • social network
  • keen to explore
27
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What is the studies for digital generational divide ?

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  • Boyle
  • smartphone society not for everyone
  • loneliness and dependence
28
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Smartphone society not for everyone

How much of UK population are smartphones users

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66%

29
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Smartphone society not for everyone- digital generational divide

What % of 16-24 year olds are smartphone users according to OFCOM ?

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90%

30
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Smartphone society not for everyone- digital generational divide

According to OFCOM , what % of old people use a smartphone?

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20%

31
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Smartphone society not for everyone- digital generational divide

According to ofcom 90% of what age uses smartphones?

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16-24 year olds

32
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Smartphone society not for everyone- digital generational divide

According to ofcom 20% of which people own a smartphone

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Old people

33
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Loneliness and dependence

What is a problem for old people ?

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Use digital technology and communication less

34
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Loneliness and dependence

Due to old people using technology less what does it effect ?

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  • shopping
  • banking
  • hinder from understanding the young
35
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Loneliness and dependence

Due to old people not accessing communication what does it increase ?

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Increase level of loneliness and dependence

36
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Loneliness and dependence

What does youth culture link to ?

A

New technology which old people are not used to

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