Older people and poverty: making critical connections in rural places.

Milbourne, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3346-885X 2020. Older people and poverty: making critical connections in rural places. Skinner, Mark, Winterton, Rachel and Walsh, Kieran, eds. Rural Gerontology: Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing, London, England: Routledge, (10.4324/9781003019435-29)

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Abstract

This chapter offers processes of marginalisation and the lived experiences of older people in poverty in rural areas. It is clear that further research is required in order to develop more comprehensive, critical and sophisticated understandings of the scale, nature and experiences of poverty among older people in rural places, as well as the impacts of austerity and welfare policy interventions on such poverty. The chapter provides an overview of the changing scale, profile and geographies of rural elders living in poverty, based on analyses of official statistics and survey data from several countries. The early 1990s also witnessed the publication of the first evidence on the scale and profile of poverty among elders in rural America. It has long been recognised that the quality of life of rural elders is not just impacted by low income but also by “social isolation, lack of access to essential services, and lack of geographic mobility”.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780367894795
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2025 13:32
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/135969

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