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Inequality and older people — report of the Age Concern Scotland Conference, October 1982
Corporate Author	Age Concern Scotland
Publisher	Age Concern Scotland, Edinburgh, 1983
Pages	50 pp
Source	Age Concern Scotland, Leonard Small House, 113 Rose Street, Edinburgh EH2 3DT.
Keywords	Poor elderly ; Age Concern ; Conference proceedings ; Scotland.
Annotation	Serious inequalities exist between older people and the rest of the population, and also within the older population itself. Age Concern Scotland's 1982 Annual Conference aimed to highlight and clarify some crucial areas of inequality affecting older people. Peter Townsend's key address considered a strategy needed to counter the enforced dependency of older people. His overview was followed by eight workshops: poverty and income maintenance; older workers; the gamble of long term care (led by Alison Norman, of the Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA); inequality in housing standards; older women; the plight of carers; attitudes to health care; and older people and their medicines. An appendix gives the government's view, as expressed by the Scottish Office Social Work Services Group, in response to Peter Townsend's paper. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980217230 P
Classmark	F:W6: PT: 6M: 9A
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