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Ageism and age discrimination in primary and community health care in the United Kingdom
— a review from the literature; commissioned by the Department of Health | | Corporate Author | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing, London, December 2009 |
| Pages | 90 pp (+ 54 pp appendices) |
| Source | Centre for Policy on Ageing, 25-31 Ironmonger Row, London EC1V 3QP. Available at: http://www.cpa.org.uk/information/reviews/reviews.... |
| Keywords | Ageism ; General practice ; Costs [care] ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The Department of Health (DH) commissioned the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA) to undertake four separate reviews from the literature to provide evidence of ageism and age discrimination in the UK in social care, secondary health care, mental health services, and primary health care. The remit for this review of primary care services was to signpost areas where negative discrimination may be occurring. The focus is primarily on the experiences of older people in their access to general practitioner (GP) services, treatment, quality of care, referrals, preventative strategies and prescribing, as well as access to rehabilitation services, palliative care, dental care, eye care, foot care and hearing services. Discussion on use of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) by the National Institute for Health and Clinical excellence (NICE) notes that expert opinion is divided. The review concludes that discrimination in health care may occur in policies and practices, systems and structures, resources and staffing, and health promotion and ageing well. Appendix 1 (6 pp), on methodology, notes search strategies and processes, and the search results for the databases searched. Appendix 2 (48 pp), a bibliography, lists all items found; key items cited are also listed at the end of the main report. Evidence from this review will support DH activities to root out age discrimination in the context of the European Commission Draft Directive COM (2008) 425 (July 2008) and the introduction of the Equality Bill to Parliament (April 2009). This review has informed 'Achieving age equality in health and social care', the review from the South West region by Sir Ian Carruthers and Jan Ormondroyd. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100129002 E |
| Classmark | B:TOB: L5: QDC: 64A |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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