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Age, Ethnicity and Equalities: Synthesising Policy and Practice Messages from Two Recent Studies of Elder Abuse in the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2010

Jill Manthorpe  and
Alison Bowes
Jill Manthorpe
Affiliation:
Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London E-mail: jill.manthorpe@kcl.ac.uk
Alison Bowes
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling
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Abstract

Two recent studies of elder abuse in the UK are located in current policy contexts of adult safeguarding. After describing the studies, the discussion draws out their central messages and identifies the challenges that the studies present to recent policy debates and innovations. These relate to the need to properly integrate both wider older people's issues and issues of racism and ethnicity within developments in adult safeguarding policy as well as social care services as the personalisation agenda advances.

Type
Themed Section on ‘Harm’, ‘Abuse’, Agency and Resilience Across the Lifespan
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 255 - 265
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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