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Connected communities
— LGB older people and their risk of exclusion from decent housing and neighbourhoods | | Author(s) | Dylan Kneale |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol 17, no 2, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 107-118 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/qaoa.htm |
| Keywords | Gay men ; Lesbians ; Bi-sexuals ; Transexuals ; Housing [elderly] ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Isolation ; Social inclusion ; Quantitative studies ; England. |
| Annotation | The author explores the way in which the housing and neighbourhood accessibility and neighbourhood connectedness of older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people aged 50 and over, differ compared to non-LGB older people. He uses data collected from 5,442 respondents to the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), including 260 identified as LGB, as well as theories around social exclusion to explore these issues. Little evidence is uncovered of a link between being LGB and experiencing exclusion from decent housing, public transport or neighbourhood amenities. Significant differences were uncovered in levels of home ownership and the numbers who reported having seen a friend the previous day, the likelihood of which were both lower for LGB people compared to non-LGB people. All analyses are subject to caveats around the size of the sample and the method of identifying LGB older people. The findings could suggest older LGB people may be less likely to have property wealth from which to draw down in retirement. Furthermore, the findings on older LGB people being less likely to have seen a friend the previous day, may suggest a need for more opportunities to be made available for LGB people to maintain their social networks closer to home, to offset the risk of social isolation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170512208 A |
| Classmark | ES6DA: ES6DB: ES6E: ES6G: KE: RH: TP: RNA: 3DQ: 82 |
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