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Facts, myths and power: the social construction of senile dementia
- Author:
- SHORTT Susanne
- Publisher:
- University of Warwick. Department of Applied Social Studies/Social Care Associat
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 96p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
Dissertation examining the social construction of senile dementia, and suggesting that ageism and sexism operate in conjunction with an oppressive medical perspective on this condition to create a triple jeopardy for white older people that is exacerbated for black elders by racism.
Older adults and Covid 19: social justice, disparities, and social work practice
- Author:
- COX Carole
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 63(6-7), 2020, pp.611-624.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The Covid- 19 pandemic has brought immense challenges to almost every country as it spreads throughout their populations. Foremost among these challenges is the heightened awareness of inequalities in society and the immense toll that the virus has on the most vulnerable. Globally, older people are the most at risk of getting the virus and dying from the it. Yet, although age is a significant contributor, it is its interaction with other factors, chronic conditions, poverty, and race that makes it a strong determinant. These factors reflect disparities and systemic social injustices that interact to increase the vulnerability of older adults. This paper discusses the many roles that social work, with its focus on social change, injustice, and vulnerable groups can intervene at many levels of practice and with specific groups to alleviate these fundamental disparities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older workers in modern times: the ageing of the UK Labour market and its consequences
- Author:
- KHAN Omar
- Journal article citation:
- Runnymede Bulletin, 368, Winter 2011, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Runnymede Trust
The implcations of the UK's ageing population on the labour market and its consequences for BME older people are discussed.
‘No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position’: age as a factor defining older women’s experience of labour market participation
- Author:
- MOORE Sian
- Journal article citation:
- Work Employment and Society, 23(4), December 2009, pp.655-671.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This research considers age as a factor defining the labour market experiences of older women. It is based on 33 interviews with women aged over 50 in three UK labour markets: London, Coventry and Oxford. Drawing upon their work histories it argues that direct discrimination on the grounds of age is difficult to disentangle from discrimination by gender, race and class. Older women’s accounts of entering work in the 1960s and 1970s demonstrated early gender segregation, influenced by school, family, gender role and class, the latter largely defined by access to higher education. The women described their perceptions of the changing nature of work and the way age can both be an advantage and disadvantage within specific occupations and sectors that are already defined in terms of race and gender. Overall they perceived age as a real impediment to entry or re-entry into the labour market, to training, and to career progression. But defining this as a discrete experience was difficult. It is suggested that intersectionality (the "intersection" of multiple forms of discrimination) enables the ways that older workers are variously situated across a number of social locations at one or more points in their life course to be captured. The authors conclude that age discrimination requires a more complex approach to and understanding of the structural nature of disadvantage than can be offered by anti-discrimination legislation alone.
The consumers' view: elderly people and community health services
- Author:
- CORNWELL Jocelyn
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 38p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Identifies who the elderly and their carers are; differing perceptions of community care; the experience of community care of consumers; ageism and racism; and guidelines for improving services.
Good practice in equal opportunities
- Authors:
- GILROY Rose, MARVIN Simon
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 164p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Countering discrimination in social work
- Editor:
- LESNIK Bogdan
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 201p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Pulls together a range of materials addressing various aspects of inequality to provide an overview of the current state of play in the development of emancipatory forms of practice that seek to counter discrimination and oppression. Includes chapters on: poverty and deprivation; globalisation and gender relations in social work; affirmative action as a counter to racial discrimination; social work and independent living; discriminating in later life; lesbians and gay men; intellectual disability, oppression and difference; strategies of empowerment; and towards a theory of emancipatory practice.