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Growing old in London
— socio-economic inequalities | | Author(s) | Maria Evandrou |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Research Group Simulating Social Policy for an Ageing Society - SAGE, London School of Economics |
| Publisher | ESRC SAGE Research Group, London School of Economics, London, December 2003 |
| Pages | 25 pp (SAGE discussion paper, no 15) (SAGEDP/15) |
| Source | Available free of charge at: www.lse.ac.uk/depts/sage Anne Scott, ESRC SAGE Research Group, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. e-mail: a.scott@lse.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Economic status [elderly] ; Poor elderly ; Health [elderly] ; Health services ; Services ; Statistics [data] ; London. |
| Annotation | Data from sources including the 2001 Census and the General Household Survey (GHS) have been used to investigate the socio-economic circumstances, health status and access to health and social care services of older people in London. Comparisons are made between inner and outer London and with Britain as a whole. The evidence indicates that inner London has a greater proportion from ethnic minority groups, deprivation concentrated both in terms of low income and poor housing quality, a lower life life expectancy and higher standardised mortality rates (SMRs) than for outer London. Although provision of health and social care services is greater in inner than outer London, indicators of quality of service (e.g. waiting times) suggest that supply falls short of that required to meet higher demand. Patterns of service utilisation also indicate that inequalities in health care use remain after taking health status into account: inequalities between sub-groups are compounded by inequalities across boroughs. This research formed the plenary paper at the Ageing and Long-Term Care in Four World Cities, World Cities Conference, Paris, 2003; and the British Society of Population Studies Annual Conference, Bristol, 2003. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040805001 B |
| Classmark | F:W: F:W6: CC: L: I: 6C: 82L |
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