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Choice, consumerism and devolution
— growing old in the welfare state(s) of Scotland, Wales and England | | Author(s) | Suzanne Moffatt, Paul Higgs, Kirstein Rummery, Ian Rees Jones |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 32 part 5, July 2012 |
| Pages | pp 725-746 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Consumer choice ; Services ; Government administration ; Decentralised ; Social policy ; Economic status [elderly] ; Poor elderly ; Scotland ; Wales ; England. |
| Annotation | For the first time since the inception of the UK welfare state, there are now formal differences in entitlement for older people as a result of devolution. This article reviews how choice and devolution have impacted on people over state retirement age. It considers the extent to which a more consumerist approach to public services might redress or increase later-life inequalities. The article suggests that for many people over state retirement age, the prospect of becoming a consumer in these varied contexts is difficult and unwelcome, and that although it is too early in the devolutionary process for any significant impact of these divergent policies to materialise, continued policy divergence will lead to different experiences and outcomes for older people. The authors conclude that these divergent social policies offer significant research on later-life inequalities. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120727001 A |
| Classmark | TY: WYC: I: VK: 5DA: TM2: F:W: F:W6: 9A: 9: 82 |
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