期刊名称:Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research
印刷版ISSN:1923-7081
出版年度:2018
卷号:29
出版社:Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research
摘要:The percentage of the elderly poor has begun to rise in Canada, with single elderly women with limited familial supports and immigrants representing the most vulnerable. Rising poverty is associated with shorter average life spans, and greater risk of illness and disability, more family stress and greater physical, psychological and social illness. The accumulation of poor health, lack of housing, rising unemployment, and lack of family care providers creates a series of interconnected issues requiring a new policy dialogue be opened up about understanding and resisting the variegated forms of inequality in later life.