How useful is the concept of social inclusion when applied to rural older people in the UK and the US?

Wie nützlich ist das Konzept der sozialen Ausgrenzung bei einer Anwendung auf ältere Menschen in ländlichen Gebieten Grobritanniens und der USA?

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Moffatt, Suzanne; Glasgow, Nina

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Abstract	This paper explores the now widespread use of the concept 'social exclusion' in the UK and examines why discourses of social exclusion have not been used in the US. The relationship between social exclusion and poverty is critically applied to rural older people, a group only recently appearing in debates about social exclusion in the UK. Despite the extensive debates about social exclusion in the UK, we show that state provided income programmes are crucial to reducing poverty among older people and that data to indicate progress on addressing any of the more relational aspects of social exclusion are largely insufficient.
Classification	Gerontology; Social Problems; Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords	Poverty; social exclusion; rural older people
Document language	English
Publication Year	2009
Page/Pages	p. 1291-1303
Journal	Regional Studies, 43 (2009) 10
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343400903002697
Status	Postprint; reviewed
Licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)