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Age of equality?: outlawing age discrimination beyond the workplace
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Age Concern report outlines the potential importance and impact of age discrimination protection – especially for the most vulnerable older people. It calls for public authorities, such as local and national government and the NHS, to be placed under a legal duty to promote age equality in every aspect of their work. Existing forms of discrimination mean that anyone over 65 with mental health needs is not included in mainstream services, and so receives less funding and reduced services. There is also overt discrimination in breast cancer treatment and bowel cancer tests, and many older report receiving inferior health and social care. Despite experience of ageism being three times more common than any form of discrimination – nearly one in four people (23%) has experienced some form of age discrimination – older people can also legally lose out on important goods and services simply because of the date on their birth certificate. Age Concern’s report calls for light-touch protection against unjust discrimination in goods and services. Discrimination is pervasive across all aspects of the lives of older people: insurance, car hire and financial products are often denied to people over certain ages, or at an extortionate premium; volunteers often experience cut off ages; and older people can be denied membership of clubs and association or admission to places of entertainment.
Insurance and age: exploring behaviour, attitudes and discrimination
- Authors:
- AGE CONCERN, HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Age Concern; Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 107p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report found that one in four people over 75 and one in five people over 65 were unsuccessful in getting quotations for motor insurance, travel insurance or care hire. This compares with just one in thirty-three of those aged 30 – 49. This has meant that 13% of people over 80 have been put off travelling due to access, cost or perceived cost of insurance. The survey also found that 31% of those over 80 felt discriminated against when getting a quotation. Unsurprisingly, older people took a dim view of the insurance industry, and see insurance companies as preoccupied with money and more interested in attracting new customers rather than serving existing ones. They also said that they felt that they were working through an “insurance minefield” of arbitrary charges and false promises.
The age agenda 2006: public policy and older people
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 104p.
- Place of publication:
- London
. This annual publication provides an overview of public policy on ageing and older people. It outlines significant policy developments and trends during 2005 and looks ahead to likely developments in 2006 and beyond. It provides a reference on the major policy issues affecting older people including pensions, age discrimination, health, social care, housing, work, learning, transport, crime and local services.