Abstract
This colloquium investigates the complexities of ageing for three overlooked populations. In the first paper, “Researching diversity in ageing: opportunities and challenges of using national data sets”, Professor Christina Victor, Dr Isla Rippon and Dr Kimberley Smith explain the complexity of identifying minority groups in large-scale population surveys (Understanding Society and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)), and of analysing data linked to social health and wellbeing outcomes. Dr Mike Thomas’s paper, “The Long Shadow of Stigma”, takes a lifecourse approach to inclusion, drawing on qualitative interview data from LGBTQ+ elders that reflects on a sense of stigma and marginalisation that persists despite recent progress in law and social attitudes. In the third paper, “A Home From Home: South Asian Elders’ accounts of ageing, family and community in West London”, Dr Mike Thomas and Dr Amy Prescott explore autobiographical accounts of the tensions between integration and separation that are linked to intersections of age, ethnicity, gender and social class. In the final paper, “Marking time: mapping social change in individual biographies”, Dr Amy Prescott draws on C. Wright Mills’s concept of the sociological imagination to reflect on the interplay between legal/social change, and the biographies and lived experience of older minority populations in the UK. By shedding light on these diverse yet overlooked ageing populations, the colloquium will generate insights for research, policy and community organisations supporting older people in diverse, aging societies.
Presenters
Mike ThomasSenior Lecturer in Social Work, Health Sciences, Brunel University London, United Kingdom Kimberley Smith
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom Isla Rippon
Research Fellow, Health Sciences, Brunel University London, United Kingdom Christina Victor
Professor of Gerontology and Public Health, Brunel University London, United Kingdom Amy Prescott
Research Fellow, Health Sciences, Brunel University London, London, City of, United Kingdom
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Theme
2024 Special Focus—Diversity Over Time: Changes in Individual, Organizational, and Place Contexts
KEYWORDS
Diversity, Aging, Sexuality, Ethnicity, Disability, Minorities, Surveys, Interviews
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