How Useful is the Concept of Social Exclusion When Applied to Rural Older People in the United Kingdom and the United States?

Suzanne Moffatt and Nina Glasgow

Regional Studies, 2009, vol. 43, issue 10, 1291-1303

Abstract: Moffatt S. and Glasgow N. How useful is the concept of social exclusion when applied to rural older people in the United Kingdom and the United States?, Regional Studies . This paper explores the now widespread use of the concept ';social exclusion' in the United Kingdom and examines why discourses of social exclusion have not been used in the United States. 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 extensive debates about social exclusion in the UK, it is shown 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.

Date: 2009
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