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| The costs of addressing age discrimination in social care | | Author(s) | Julien Forder |
| Corporate Author | Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE |
| Publisher | Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, April 2008 |
| Pages | 36 pp (PSSRU Discussion Paper 2538) |
| Source | The Administrator, Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Free download available from DPS web pages: http://www.pssru.ac.uk/pdf/dp2538.pdf |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Rights [elderly] ; Services ; Costs [care] ; Mathematical models. |
| Annotation | Equality of resources, equality of outcome, and most importantly equality of opportunity are considered as relevant to this discussion on age discrimination in service provision. This report is concerned with equality between age groups in relation to the use of public care services. It uses two survey-based datasets are used to examine differences in levels of support between age groups: the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), and the national evaluation of Individual Budgets survey (IBSEN). Both datasets gave indications of differences in levels of support between age groups after accounting for differences required to compensate people with varying levels of need. The IBSEN data suggest that service users aged 65+ would require a 25% increase in support for these age differences compared to those aged 18-64 to be be removed. The BHPS data more tentatively suggest that older people's access to services is slightly more limited than for younger people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080728205 B |
| Classmark | B:TOB: IKR: I: QDC: 3LM |
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