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| Minimum income standards and older pensioners' needs | | Author(s) | Yvette Hartfree, Donald Hirsch, Liz Sutton |
| Publisher | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF, January 2013 |
| Pages | 34 pp (JRF programme paper: Minimum Income Standards) |
| Source | Download report: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/minimum-income-... |
| Keywords | Income [older people] ; Retired persons ; Cost of living ; Needs [elderly] ; Quality of life. |
| Annotation | The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) defines how much income people need in order to reach a minimum acceptable standard of living in the UK today. However the rapid increase in the population of older pensioners makes it particularly salient to ask whether the current MIS for pensioner households is adequate for meeting the needs of this group. The research set out to explore whether different needs among older pensioners may alter significantly the income they need for an acceptable standard of living, and if so the nature and rationale for this difference. In particular it looked at how health changes and cognitive impairment impact on people's lives in later old age; how the scope of an MIS for older pensioners may be defined; and how the needs of older pensioners differ. A key finding from the research was that older pensioners do not have fewer needs compared to younger pensioners. When discussing a minimum acceptable standard of living older pensioners did not need less and there was no evidence that they had lower expectations, or that there were spending economies from life being less 'full'. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130205001 B |
| Classmark | JF: BB6: J3C: IK: F:59 |
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