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On the missing list
- Authors:
- BUTT Jabeer, MIRZA Kurshida
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.11.96, 1996, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Research is proliferating, covering every client group except black elders. Reports work being undertaken by the authors which attempts to redress the balance.
Ethnic elders
- Author:
- EBRAHIM Shah
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 7.9.96, 1996, pp.610-612.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
The numbers of elderly people from ethnic groups within Britain is rising rapidly as postwar immigrants age. Ethnic elders face problems owing to age-associated increased risks of common chronic diseases, racial discrimination, and poor access to many health services and social services. This disadvantage will be alleviated through increased understanding of health beliefs held by ethnic elders and ensuring better access to services through mechanisms such as employment of more staff from ethnic minority groups in senior positions, better training of staff, and more appropriate and sensitive environments. The myths that family care is sufficient, that no use of services implies no need, and that assimilation into the majority population will occur must be discounted.
Incorporating diversity: meaning, levels of research, and implications for theory
- Author:
- CALASANTI Toni M.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 36(2), April 1996, pp.147-156.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Incorporating diverse experiences into gerontological theory, research, and practice is necessary for understanding the lives of all old people, and not only 'special groups'. Explains how incorporating diversity exposes the power relations constitutive of lived experiences. Uses examples of retirement research to demonstrate that starting with the voices of those with less power renders a more complete view of social reality. Concludes by noting that a more inclusive approach forces us to see all ageing experiences not as determined but rather as fluid, dialectical, contextual - and changeable through human actions.
Distinguishing cultural expectations in assessment of financial exploitation
- Author:
- SANCHEZ Yolanda M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 8(2), 1996, pp.49-59.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Formal protocols for the screening of financial exploitation have tended to be rooted in assumptions reflective of a white, middle class perspective and have often failed to account for cultural differences in minority communities. Discusses the significance of cultural considerations in screening for financial exploitation.
Minority elders in double jeopardy
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 4(2), May 1995, pp.31-32.
Age Concern England and the Commission for Racial Equality have announced a joint campaign to improve understanding of the needs of ethnic minority elders. Explains how they mean to achieve this.
It's time to wake the 'sleeping giants' - black and minority ethnic older people within the European Union
- Author:
- SCOTT Helena
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 3(2), May 1994, pp.22-35.
Describes Age Concern Scotland's European-based project 'Ageing in Multicultural Europe' - its aims, networking activities, and a major symposium held in Edinburgh in December 1993.
Health relations
- Author:
- THOMPSON June
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 3.11.93, 1993, pp.50-52.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on a health promotion campaign in South London with Asian older people.
Grey power: age-based organisations' response to structured inequalities
- Author:
- GINN Jay
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 38, Autumn 1993, pp.23-47.
- Publisher:
- Sage
One consequence of the ageing of populations is the portrayal of elderly people as threatening the viability of welfare states; in particu lar, those who wish to justify cuts in public pensions depict the elderly as increasingly affluent and powerful relative to the rest of society. This article challenges such a view of elderly people in Britain as an ageist myth which serves to distract attention from the real sources of economic problems and from inequalities in elderly people's income and power which vary by class, gender and race. Because ageing affects men and women in different ways elderly women are not only poorer than men but also have lower social status, disadvantages Which are compounded for black women. Examination of publications of older people's campaigning organ isations in Britain and the USA shows that elderly people do not align themselves politically on the basis of age but of class. Although women participate at all levels in 'grey power', older peoples organis ations have largely neglected the issues of gender and race. Whereas older women in the USA have highlighted injustices to women and achieved some reforms, British older women have not yet mobiused as effectively.
Service where it's due
- Author:
- WILSON Melba
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 3.9.92, 1992, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Self-help groups are filling the gaping gaps in services for black and ethnic minority elderly people.
A race apart
- Author:
- O'MEACHAIR Gearoid
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 30.1.92, 1992, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Racism and stereotyping of Irish people in Britain has a harmful effect on their life chances which is often overlooked by social services.