Description
In the last decade, there has been a growing awareness regarding social exclusion. Considering the ageing population and the likelihood of older people to experience co-existing disadvantages there is a growing need to study old-age social exclusion. This is even more the case because social exclusion is associated with negative outcomes such as lower life satisfaction. Although social exclusion is considered as a multidimensional concept in which different dimensions of disadvantage are combined, this multidimensionality is often not retained in current measures. Furthermore there is a need to study old-age exclusion from the environmental and life course perspective.This PhD study focuses on social exclusion among older adults in Flanders and Brussels. It develops an old-age social exclusion measure that retains the multidimensionality of the concept, leading to four categories of old-age social exclusion. Furthermore, this study examines prevalences of old-age social exclusion and explores the influence of setting different thresholds. Also the association of individual determinants (e.g. gender and educational level) and the influence of municipalities’ characteristics (e.g. criminality rate and service provision) are studied. Finally, analyses of 19 life story interviews give more insights in how financially excluded older adults experience and narrate their life course. This dissertation builds on the growing field of research focusing on old- age social exclusion and formulates some recommendations towards policy and practice to prevent and tackle old-age social exclusion.
| Periode | 12 sep 2017 |
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| Evenementstitel | SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN LATER LIFE: Measurement and drivers of social exclusion among older adults |
| Evenementstype | Doctoraatsverdediging |
| Locatie | Brussels, Belgium |
| Mate van erkenning | International |