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Diversity in older age: older refugees and asylum seekers
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 9
- Place of publication:
- London
This review summarises findings from selected literature and statistics on older refugees and asylum seekers. It is one of a series of rapid reviews commissioned by Age UK into the diversity that exists in the older population and the inequalities faced by specific groups of older people. It provides a demographic overview of the number of older refugees and asylum seekers in Europe and the UK and highlights some of their specific needs. Issues facing older refugees and asylum seekers include low income, language barriers, the risk of loneliness and a lack of social networks, and often a loss of social status. (Edited publisher abstract)
Diversity in older age: Gypsies and Travellers
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- London
This review summarises findings from selected literature and statistics on older Gypsies and Travellers. It is one of a series of rapid reviews commissioned by Age UK into the diversity that exists in the older population and the inequalities faced by specific groups of older people. Areas covered include: demographics, health, housing, and family and community. (Edited publisher abstract)
Diversity in older age: older lesbian, gay and bi-sexual people and older transgender people
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- London
This review summarises findings from selected literature and statistics on older lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender people. It is one of a series of rapid reviews commissioned by Age UK into the diversity that exists in the older population and the inequalities faced by specific groups of older people. Areas covered include: demographics, relationships and communities, financial wellbeing, physical and mental health, housing and neighbourhoods, care and support and end of life care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older people from black and minority ethnic groups: selected readings
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A selective bibliography on older people from black and minority ethnic groups. The references are drawn from the Ageinfo, the database of ageing and older age from the Centre for Policy on Ageing. A reference and short descriptive abstract is included for each reference.
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Diversity in older age: minority religions
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
This review summarises findings from selected literature and statistics on older people belonging to minority religious groups. It is one of a series of rapid reviews commissioned by Age UK into the diversity that exists in the older population and the inequalities faced by specific groups of older people. It includes a demographic overview, a breakdown of minority beliefs in older age, the work of minority faith-based organisations in providing welfare support, end of life care, and attitudes to religious minorities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Diversity in older age: older offenders
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
This review summarises findings from selected literature and statistics on older offenders. It is one of a series of rapid reviews commissioned by Age UK into the diversity that exists in the older population and the inequalities faced by specific groups of older people. Areas covered include: demographics, health and care needs, resettlement planning for prison release, and end of life care and death in prison. (Edited publisher abstract)
Diversity in older age: disability
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
This review summarises findings from selected literature and statistics on older disabled people. It is one of a series of rapid reviews commissioned by Age UK into the diversity that exists in the older population and the inequalities faced by specific groups of older people. Areas covered include: the meaning and prevalence of disability in older age; disability and employment; income and benefits; access to transport; health and social care; and housing. (Edited publisher abstract)
Resilience in older age
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 44
- Place of publication:
- London
A review of the literature on resilience in older age as the ability to stand up to adversity and to 'bounce back' or return to a state of equilibrium following individual adverse episodes. The review provides a definition of resilience, and focuses on its measurement, its promotion, and factors associated with resilience, including age, gender, health, social networks, personal characteristics and spirituality. (Edited publisher abstract)
Changing family structures and their impact on the care of older people
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 63
- Place of publication:
- London
This brief review of the literature looks at how changing family structures will influence the supply and demand for formal and informal care by older people. Key findings include: most informal care for older people is provided by partners and adult children and changes in family structure may have an effect on the availability of care; the change factors often work against each other or appear to be having less effect than might be thought - while reduced family size reduces the number of children available to be carers, increasing male longevity, getting closer to that for women, increases the availability of spouses as carers; increased divorce rates, particularly among the over 60s, may help to increase the number of older people living alone and weaken relationships between parents and children, but a 2008 study found that, overall, partnership dissolution did not show the expected detrimental relationship with later life support. (Edited publisher abstract)
Using housing wealth and other assets to pay for care
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 82
- Place of publication:
- London
A rapid review on using personal assets, including housing wealth, to pay for care. The literature reviewed covers: wealth overviews and the wealth lifecycle; wealth inequality; housing as wealth; releasing equity from housing wealth; attitudes to housing, wealth and the release of equity; inheritance; the relationship between health and wealth and the trade-off between home ownership and welfare provision; housing and wealth as contributors to the funding of long term care; and international and comparative studies. The review argues that older people would prefer not to use their hard won housing assets to pay for long term care but, given the unacceptability of a pooled system either from general taxation, a compulsory up-front 'insurance' premium on retirement or a 'death tax', a scheme to pay for long term care as the need arises becomes necessary. It concludes that the care cap and universal deferred payment scheme provisions of the Care Act 2014 may well be the most acceptable way forward. (Edited publisher abstract)