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Professor Stanley Henry BEAVER
1907 - 1984
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Dr. Linda Stanier, Division of Geography Universit
y of Derby
UNIVERSITY of DERBY
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Demographic ageing poses social, economic and
political challenges, but the present and future
predicted patterns vary spatially. This session
examines the nature of these geographical
patterns, with special reference to the UK and
assesses the related impacts.
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• Definitions and images of ageing
• Patterns of ageing populations
• Temporal
• Spatial
• Global
• European
• British
• Implications / Impacts
• - social
• - economic
• - health
• - political
• Prospect

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Definitions of old 60 for women 65
for men young elderly 75 old
elderly Retirement age Contested nature of
ageing. Socially constructed. Meaning of old
age changes over time and space.
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Old age can only be understood as a whole it is
not solely a biological but also a cultural
fact. Simone de Beauvoir (1972) Old Age
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IMAGES OF ELDERLY PEOPLE
POOR FRAIL SICK IMMOBILE POORLY-HOUSED
DEPENDENT
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Old age is not about birthdays. Nor is oldness
any longer a synonym for illness. Eric
Midwinter (1989)
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IMAGES OF ELDERLY PEOPLE
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I dont really care where it is
going. Beatrice Muller, 82, who lives on the
QE2 because it is cheaper than staying in an
old peoples home in America.
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Demographic trends ageing Global Europea
n British
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Source Warnes (1982)
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Source Daniels et al. (2000)
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http//www.uregina.ca/arts/geography/faculty/Li/GE
OG200_7/
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Source Jackson (2000)
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Ratio of over-60s to 15-to-60s in the United
Kingdom
Source Government Actuarys Department.
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Source Allon -Smith (1982)
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Source Allon -Smith (1982)
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Spatial patterns of proportion of persons aged 65
years (M) and 60 years (F) (Census, 2001)
Christchurch (Dorset) 33 Rother 32 East
Devon 30 West Somerset 29 Tendring 29 Aru
n 29 East Dorset 29 West
Dorset 28 Eastbourne 27
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Source Phillips and Bartlett (1995)
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Source Phillips, A.D.M.(1993) The Potteries
continuity and change in a north Staffordshire
conurbation
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• Social implications
• Economic implications
• Health implications
• Political implications

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• Social Implications
• Feminisation of ageing societies
• Care responsibilities
• Mobility / migration trends
• - ageing of labour migrants
• - migration by older people
• Physical, social exclusion
• Volunteering

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• Economic Implications
• Retirement age
• Age discrimination
• Material resources - housing
• Pensions
• Grey market

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• Health Implications
• Links between agencies
• Access to care
• Diversity of needs

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Political Implications Grey electoral
power Grey vote Lobbying
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• Myths ?
• Ageing is a permanent trend
• More old people mean an exponential
• rise in ill health and in dependency
• Ageing populations hinder economic
  growth

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• Prospect
• An asset
• More flexible approach towards
  retirement
• Home working
• Volunteering
• Articulate pressure group
• Targeted policies
• Link between agencies