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Older peoples' experiences of Community Care
Author(s) -
Barrett David
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.1992.tb00443.x
Subject(s) - poverty , position (finance) , context (archaeology) , underclass , affect (linguistics) , legislation , ideology , inequality , government (linguistics) , political science , economic growth , sociology , politics , business , economics , law , paleontology , biology , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , communication , finance
This exploration of the position of “poor older people”within the context of Community Care, analyses the evidence and identifies discriminatory features that affect their lives. There follows an examination of poverty and the Government's management of the changes in Social Security legislation around pensions and benefits, with special reference to the position of women and carers. Are “economically fragile”older people members of the newly emerging underclass? The consequent inequalities are further explored via the position of carers and retired women in relation to the Benefits System; both groups seem to miss the much heralded effects of the trickle‐down economic ideology. In the era of Citizen's Charters, so called choices for economically fragile service users appear to be little more than Hobson's Choice.