scholarly journals Social Exclusion and Older Persons: A Case of Millennium of Isolation

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mahwish Zeeshan
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Union Council ◽  
The Social ◽  
Old Age Poverty ◽  
Depth Interviews

Old age social exclusion is a crucial issue all over the world. The ways in which social exclusion may affect older people have largely been neglected. This article seeks to generate a better understanding of the dimensions of social exclusion relevant to older people highlighting the causes and effects of social exclusion of old age. Poverty and health issues are important elements of the social exclusion. This data is based on in-depth interviews from the old age people of union council Jalalabad in Multan. 38 respondents were selected from the union council Jalalabad through purposive sampling. Based on in-depth interviews of the respondents containing questions related to the causes and effects of social exclusion it is recommended that government and private institutions should promote the awareness in people to alleviate the social exclusion issue from the society.

An Age-Based Mobilisation: The Emergence of Old Age in American Politics

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Elman
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Movement Models ◽  
Shape Characteristics ◽  
To Receive

AbstractOlder people became a highly visible force in the American politics of the 1930s. The Townsend organisation mobilised one tenth of the U.S. elderly population prior to their direct representation in the polity as an interest group. This article utilises several theoretical social movement models to analyse how and why mobilisation occurred. It demonstrates that many factors, including phenomena associated with the social dimension of age, influenced the mechanisms of mobilisation and the movement's shape. Characteristics of this cohort of older people, including its size, life expectancy, spatial distribution, shared traditions, and symbolic frameworks were conducive to club formation and mobilisation. The period event of the Depression also triggered collective action, by exacerbating trends of changing old-age institutional supports. But the organisation expanded most where it channelled inducements to participants and evoked the cohorts' symbolic frameworks and ideals. Mobilisation also occurred within a political environment, the national stage of U.S. politics, where non-represented interest groups (such as elderly people) find it difficult to receive benefits.

scholarly journals Lost and unfulfilled relationships behind emotional loneliness in old age

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1068-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELISA TIILIKAINEN ◽  
MARJAANA SEPPÄNEN
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Emotional Loneliness ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Depth Interviews

ABSTRACTUsing a qualitative approach, this article examines how the experiences of emotional loneliness are embedded in the everyday lives and relationships of older adults. Ten in-depth interviews were conducted in 2010 with older people who reported feeling lonely, often or all the time, during a cohort study in southern Finland. The research reveals the multifaceted nature of loneliness and its causes. Behind emotional loneliness, we identified lost and unfulfilled relationships, involving the loss or lack of a partner, the absence of a meaningful friendship, complex parenthood and troubling childhood experiences. Most of the interviewees have faced loneliness that only began in old age, but for some, loneliness has been present for nearly a lifetime.

scholarly journals Age-Friendly Approaches and Old-Age Exclusion: A Cross-City Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tine Buffel ◽  
Samuèle Rémillard-Boilard ◽  
Kieran Walsh ◽  
Bernard McDonald ◽  
An-Sofie Smetcoren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Research Gap

Developing ‘Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFCC)’ has become a key part of policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people in urban areas. Despite this development, there is evidence of rising inequalities among urban elders, and little known about the potential and limitations of the age-friendly model to reduce old-age exclusion. This article addresses this research gap by comparing how Brussels, Dublin, and Manchester, as three members of the Global Network of AFCC, have responded to social exclusion in later life. The article combines data from document analysis and stakeholder interviews to examine: first, the age-friendly approach and the goal of reducing social exclusion; and second, barriers to developing age-friendly policies as a means of addressing exclusion. The paper suggests that there are reciprocal benefits in linking age-friendly and social exclusion agendas for producing new ways of combatting unequal experiences of ageing in cities.

scholarly journals The ideology of ageism versus the social imaginary of the fourth age: two differing approaches to the negative contexts of old age

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1617-1630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Higgs ◽  
Chris Gilleard
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Gerontology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Aspects

AbstractThe development of social gerontology has led to the emergence of its own terminology and conceptual armoury. ‘Ageism’ has been a key concept in articulating the mission of gerontology and was deliberately intended to act as an equivalent to the concepts of racism and sexism. As a term, it has established itself as a lodestone for thinking about the de-valued and residualised social status of older people in contemporary society. Given this background, ageism has often been used to describe an overarching ideology that operates in society to the detriment of older people and which in large part explains their economic, social and cultural marginality. This paper critiques this approach and suggests an alternative based upon the idea of the social imaginary of the fourth age. It argues that not only is the idea of ageism too totalising and contradictory but that it fails to address key aspects of the corporeality of old age. Adopting the idea of a social imaginary offers a more nuanced theoretical approach to the tensions that are present in later life without reducing them to a single external cause or explanation. In so doing, this leaves the term free to serve, in a purely descriptive manner, as a marker of prejudice.

FEATURES OF THE COURSE OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN OLDER PERSONS UNDERGOING COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol Special issue (3) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
N.M. Abdukodirova ◽  
◽  
G.M. Tulaboeva ◽  
X.M. Sagatova ◽  
Yu.Sh. Talipova
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Myocardial Infarction ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Elderly Patients ◽  
Older People ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk Factors ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Pathogenic Factors

To study the features of the course of myocardial infarction in older people who have undergone COVID-19. Analysis of the prevalence of concomitant pathologies in elderly patients who have had myocardial infarction showed that most of them belong to the group of patients who have undergone COVID-19. Patients with concomitant CVD and / or traditional cardiovascular risk factors, especially in old age, belong to a particularly vulnerable cohort, characterized by a severe course of COVID-19, and exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and other pathogenic factors with toxic, pro-inflammatory pro-inflammatory effects, can lead to decompensation of concomitant CVD, including the development of myocardial infarction

Aging and Chronic Illness in Language and Sexuality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Peel ◽  
Sonja J. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Health ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Older People ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Social

An aging demographic in Western societies as well as globally has made public health issues, such as dementia, subject to hyperbolic metaphor such as “tsunami” and “time bomb.” This chapter reviews the state of knowledge regarding language, sexualities, aging, and chronic illness. In particular, the discussion focuses on discursive research from across the social sciences that furthers understandings of older people’s lives and experiences. The chapter highlights research that has focused on ageism and chronic conditions impacting older people (specifically, dementia and type 2 diabetes), including empirical research on these conditions, and on manifestations of heterosexism and heteronormativity in these contexts. Using illustrative examples that emphasize the intersection of discourse and issues that relate to aging, the chapter foregrounds this area as an important element of language and sexuality scholarship. Last, future directions for the development of research focusing on these topics are indicated.

A Captive, a Wreck, a Piece of Dirt: Aging Anxieties Embodied in Older People With a Death Wish

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Els van Wijngaarden ◽  
Carlo Leget ◽  
Anne Goossensen ◽  
Robert Pool ◽  
Anne-Mei The
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Wish To Die ◽  
Death Wish ◽  
Depth Interviews

The aims of this present study were to explore the use and meaning of metaphors and images about aging in older people with a death wish and to elucidate what these metaphors and images tell us about their self-understanding and imagined feared future. Twenty-five in-depth interviews with Dutch older people with a death wish (median 82 years) were analyzed by making use of a phenomenological–hermeneutical metaphor analysis approach. We found 10 central metaphorical concepts: (a) struggle, (b) victimhood, (c) void, (d) stagnation, (e) captivity, (f) breakdown, (g) redundancy, (h) subhumanization, (i) burden, and (j) childhood. It appears that the group under research does have profound negative impressions of old age and about themselves being or becoming old. The discourse used reveals a strong sense of distance, disengagement, and nonbelonging associated with their wish to die. This study empirically supports the theory of stereotype embodiment.

scholarly journals THE SOCIAL EXCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES FROM TERTIARY EDUCATION – TARGETING BARRIERS DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF DISABILITY BASED ON THE FINDINGS OF A QUALITATIVE STUDY

2019 ◽  
pp. 015
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Nikolajević
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Specific Barriers ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Education Process

In this paper, we primarily dealt with the low representation of persons with disabilities in the tertiary education system and targeted specific barriers that keep people with disabilities outside the tertiary education process. The mentioned problem was approached from the perspective of social exclusion and one of the main tasks of the conducted research was to gain insight into the types of barriers that affect persons with different types of disabilities depending on their student status (they did not enroll at a university, they discontinued their studies, they are currently studying, they have completed their studies). The results were gained by conducting in-depth interviews covering all the mentioned categories of persons with disabilities. The results of the research point to the existence of numerous obstacles that people with disabilities face in the process of acquiring tertiary education. It has turned out that the surveyed persons with disabilities face insurmountable obstacles in the form of architectural, institutional and social barriers, depending on the type of disability and their social environment.

scholarly journals PENOLAKAN KOMUNITAS LOKAL NAGARI PADANG TAROK TERHADAP KEDATANGAN TRANSMIGRAN SUKU ANAK DALAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Indeska Putra ◽  
Indraddin Indraddin ◽  
Alfan Miko
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Selection Of

This research discusses the rejection of Anak Dalam Ethnic transmigrants in Padang Tarok Village, Kamang Baru District, Sijunjung Regency. The purpose of this study is to explain and describe the reasons for the local community of Padang Tarok Village to reject the Anak Dalam Ethnic Transmigrant and to analyze it using the Social Exclusion by Rene Lenoir. This research uses a qualitative approach. The selection of informants was carried out by purposive sampling. Data collection was carried out using involved observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The result of the study shows that the rejection of Anak Dalam Ethnic transmigrants occurs because of differences in religious and cultural values between the Anak Dalam Ethnic and the local community of Padang Tarok Village. Due to differences in religious and cultural values between the Anak Dalam Ethnic and the local community, the transmigration program for the Anak Dalam Ethnic was not implemented according to the plan

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