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Age equality in health and social care
— a paper presented to the IPPR Seminar, 28 January 2002 at the King's Fund; the fourth in a series of six seminars on the IPPR project Age as an Equality Issue, funded by the Nuffield Foundation | | Author(s) | Janice Robinson |
| Corporate Author | Institute for Public Policy Research - IPPR |
| Publisher | Institute for Public Policy Research - IPPR, 2002 |
| Pages | 17 pp |
| Source | Download only from website: http://www.ippr.org |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Health services ; Services ; Social policy ; Lecture papers. |
| Annotation | Although the National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) requires health and social care agencies "to root out age discrimination", there is a substantial body of evidence indicating that older people experience age discrimination in health care. The author uses evidence gathered by the King's Fund and other organisations in the incidence of age discrimination in health and social care. She discusses the arguments that are being used to justify age-related approaches to health and social care. She concludes that age equality legislation is, "with some provisos, both necessary and desirable", and would require more protection than offered under the Human Rights Act 1998. While such legislation would incur costs, those costs that are currently saved in the health sector fall on other sectors, notably local authority social services. However, further work is needed to quantify the benefits and costs of promoting age equality in health and social care. Failure to introduce new legislation is likely to perpetuate the tendency for older people to be treated as second class citizens. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071218208 E |
| Classmark | B:TOB: L: I: TM2: 6MA |
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