0 a situation in which some people who are poor or who do not have a job do not feel part of the rest of society
The study reported here has shown that increasing resources could reduce social exclusion among a small group of older people.
Different propositions about the causes of social exclusion derive from different views about individual agency.
Through having early-stage dementia, they experienced social exclusion and devaluation.
Gerontologists were more inclined to support activity theory and the associated ideas of social exclusion as an explanatory factor for social retreat.
The literature which addresses the questions of citizenship and social exclusion in respect of older people remains fairly thin at present.
This has been accompanied by a growing awareness that aspects of some welfare policies, far from countering social exclusion, may actually contribute to it.
The authors of this book adopt the now well-established position that a discussion of homelessness should take place within debates about social exclusion.
Poverty and social exclusion are the greatest threats to the wellbeing and independence of older people.
