age disadvantages

Question 1

willis

Answer 1

workplace, WC boys don’t value education, follow fathers footsteps.

Question 2

greengross

Answer 2

workplace, ageism is embedded

Question 3

national pensioners convention

Answer 3

workplace, 1 in 5 older people live below the poverty line, majority living alone.

Question 4

youngpeopleshealth.org

Answer 4

health, 75% of mental health problems start before 24, but 0.7% of NHS funding goes towards it.

Question 5

greengross

Answer 5

health, NHS has institutionalised ageism, older people are being denied treatment.

Question 6

royal college of surgeons

Answer 6

health, in some areas of the UK, no one over the age of 75 is being offered surgery for breast cancer.

Question 7

cohen

Answer 7

media, negative labelling of youths, mods and rockers, folk devils, self fulfilling prophecies.

Question 8

Griffin

Answer 8

media, youths are deviant, dysfunctional and suffering a deficit.

Question 9

carrigan and szmigin

Answer 9

media, older people are smelly and incompetent.

Question 10

financial times

Answer 10

crime, in 2015, the number of over 60s doubled since 2005.

Question 11

age uk

Answer 11

crime, financial scams, older people lost double the amount younger people did.

Question 12

jacobson

Answer 12

crime, out of young people in custody, 3/4 have absent fathers, 1/2 have run away from care.

Question 13

ritzer

Answer 13

workplace, young people stuck of exploitative zero hour contracts.