Factors of Age Inequalities

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  • AGE INEQUALITIES
    • EMPLOYMENT
      • YOUTH
        • 16 year olds have a minimum wage of £4 per hour
        • Seen as cheap labour
        • Restrictions on where they can work
        • 14/15 year olds cannot work more than 12 hours during a school week
        • More likely to be on low pay/ minimum wage
      • ELDERLY
        • 'deskilled'
        • The Digital Divide
          • Dowd (1989) 'strangers in their own land'
        • 38% of discrimination cases filed are about age
        • Evidence showing more people are working past retirement because they can't afford not to
        • State pension on the rise- by 2026 it will be 67
        • 20% of 65-74 year olds are in insecure work
    • POVERTY
      • 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK (1/3)
        • This affects a child's life chances
      • 16% of pensioners live in poverty
        • fuel poverty- 1/10 of money spent on fuel bill
        • Have to choose between heating and food
    • HOUSING
      • 1/3 of homes with at least 1 'category 1 hazard' is occupied by someone 55 and over
      • Poor housing in later life is more likely to affect  older BAME people
        • 29% of BAME renting later in life, as oppose to 17% of white households
        • In general, people from BAME backgrounds are more likely to live in deprived neigbourhoods
      • Young people find it harder than previous generations to gain access to social housing
    • HEALTH
      • Grundy and Holt (2001)- 'burden of ill health'
      • Over 50% of people over 65 have at least two chronic health conditions
      • 1 in 5 in routine occupations say that age prevents them from doing things
        • Link to social class- people with financial security age very differently
      • Proportion of men and women from poorer backgrounds with issues like chronic heart disease, depression, diabetes etc is much higher than that of a higher social class
      • Men over 50- poorest= 50% have arthritis, 1/4 of wealthiest
    • EXPERIENCE
      • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing- over 7,500 people over 50, questions about harassment
        • 1.973 of respondents said that they had been affected by age discrimination
      • 1 in 4 people over 50 been treated unfairly
      • Study by CV Library (2017)- 70% of UK workers agree that age discrimination is common

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