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age inequality - Coggle Diagram
age inequality
income and work
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Income security is not a given at any age, but the majority of the world’s older people find themselves having to work longer out of necessity – even until their final years
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Unemployment among the over-50s reached 426,000 in the final three months of 2020, a 48 per cent increase on the previous year. Redundancies in this age group also reached 284,685 last year, a 79 per cent year-on-year rise.
Polling by YouGov commissioned by Age UK in 2017 found that 36% of over 50s felt they had been disadvantaged at work because of their age
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The most common form of workplace discrimination reported is age discrimination, with more than 1 in 10 adults in the UK saying that they think their age has been a factor in not getting jobs they’ve applied for (11%) and more than 1 in 20 (5.7%) saying that they’ve experienced workplace discrimination based on their age
Poverty
In 2020/21, two thirds (65%) of children in poverty lived in a working households (where at least one adult is in workand 40% of children in lone parent households were in poverty (compared to 24% of those in couple parent households)
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Regionally the North East has seen the sharpest increase in child poverty levels at 38%, up 7 percentage points from 2010/11
Statistics released by the End Child Poverty Coalition show 3.6 million children were living in poverty in 2020/21 or about eight children in a class of 30
Children in families with older children are less likely to be in poverty than those with younger children
Families with the youngest child aged 0-4 were 36% more likely to be in poverty, compared to 28% for families where the youngest child is 5-10 (2019-2020)
health
70-75 year olds
face a disproportionate drop in areas such as surgery; chemotherapy; and talking therapies.
A systematic review in 2020 showed that in 85 per cent of 149 studies, age determined who received certain medical procedures or treatments.
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Among older people, ageism is associated with poorer physical and mental health, increased social isolation and loneliness, greater financial insecurity, decreased quality of life and premature death
Children born into poorer households often have a lower birth weight than children born into better-off families and consequently are at greater risk of infant mortality and chronic illness later on in later
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