Social Exclusion in Later Life: New Findings from A Multidimensional Approach to Social Exclusion Project View Digital Media

Colloquium
Marja Aartsen,  Laura Tufa,  Mihaela Ghenta,  Marian Vasile,  Rosa Maria Radogna,  Iuliana Precupetu,  Hanna Vangen  

Social exclusion (SE) – or the separation of individuals and groups from mainstream society - is a serious problem with adverse health and well-being outcomes. Older adults form a vulnerable group due to the accumulation of factors associated with age. SE is multidimensional, including social, cultural, economic, material, and geographical aspects. Many empirical questions are still unanswered of which some are addressed in this colloquium. The colloquium brings together researchers from Norway and Romania collaborating in the project AMASE: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Exclusion in later life – health consequences for ageing populations. Questions concern different types of social exclusion, risk factors, outcomes, and policy implications. Based on data from the first and ninth cohort of the European Social Survey, the first presenter discusses the potential impact of social norms on SE in later life by showing how differences in SE between childless older people and older people who had at least one child during their life became smaller in later born cohorts. By using an intersectional life course perspective, the second presenter indicates how pathways in- and out SE are linked to social and societal processes and the political history of a country in a socially deprived group. Based on latent class analysis, the third presenter provides evidence for a typology of social exclusion. The fourth presentation concentrates on civic participation in later life and its association with other domains of social exclusion, and the last discusses the transferability of policy practices for older people from Norway to Romania.