Poverty and exclusion, especially among older people
The annual Joseph Rowntree publication on poverty and social exclusion has come out, with as usual interesting statistics on health inequalities, measured as usual by premature deaths.
One interesting feature of the information about older people shows that fewer older people are helped to live at home in rural areas than urban areas. Associated with this, perhaps, older people are disadvantaged in using transport; particularly if they are single tey don’t get to make so many journeys if they don’t have a car.
Palmer,G, MacInnes, T. and Kenway P. (2008) Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2008 York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
See it at: http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/2315-society-poverty-exclusion.pdf
September 28th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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