Abstract
The chapter on elderly people in Muriel Brown’s book, Introduction to Social Administration in Britain begins with the statement, ‘Simply to grow old is not in itself a problem’.1 Ageing is a natural process which happens to everyone. It brings special needs and it is the failure of society to recognise and meet these needs adequately which causes problems for the elderly. Elderly people are a politically powerless group, they are not organised and cannot strike for better pensions. Pressure groups such as Age Concern are active in campaigning on behalf of the elderly, but to a large extent, meeting needs relies on the goodwill and commitment of society.
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Muriel Brown, Introduction to Social Administration in Britain, 5th edn (London: Hutchinson, 1982) p. 180.
For example, Peter Townsend, Poverty in the United Kingdom (London: Allen Lane, 1979).
David Brandon, ‘Understanding Ernie’, Mind Out May/June 1979, no. 34, p. 15.
Printed in Vida Carver and Penny Liddiard (eds) An Ageing Population (Kent: Hodder & Stoughton and The Open University, 1978) pp. ix–x.
Ellen Newton, This Bed My Centre (London: Virago, 1979) p. 38.
Ann Shearer, Disability: Whose Handicap? (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981) p. 10.
A. I. Harris, E. Cox and R. W. Smith, Handicapped and Impaired in Great Britain Part 1 (London: HMSO, 1971).
Sue in Jo Campling (ed.) Images of Ourselves (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981) pp. 47–8.
Ros Franey, Hard Times (London: Disability Alliance, 1983).
Daphne Saunders, ‘Living on Benefit’ in Alan Walker and Peter Townsend (eds) Disability in Britain (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1981) p. 23.
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Young, P. (1985). Old Age and Disability. In: Mastering Social Welfare. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17755-4_11
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