TY - JOUR
T1 - Living in the Age of Austerity and Migration
T2 - The Complexities of Elderly Care
AU - Xu, Qingwen
AU - Halsall, Jamie
PY - 2017/10/1
Y1 - 2017/10/1
N2 - The global financial crisis of 2008 has caused much dialogue within the social policy framework on how to maintain a sustainable elderly health-care system. This coupled with a migrant crisis have created extra social and economic pressures in Europe in particularly. As it has been well documented by social scientists, people are living longer than ever before. There are two fundamental factors that are helping people live to an old age, which are as follows: (a) a better quality of life and (b) improved health-care system at state level. However, since the global financial crisis of 2008 populations across the world are living in an age of austerity. The age of austerity has brought extra financial pressures on the state, polarizing society by implementing cuts in welfare. The reason many governments across the world (e.g., United States, United Kingdom, and Greece) have enforced a series of austerity measures is fundamentally to reduce debt. The aim of this article is to critically explore the austerity social policy agenda within the context of the debates surrounding the refugee or migrant crisis in the elderly health-care system.
AB - The global financial crisis of 2008 has caused much dialogue within the social policy framework on how to maintain a sustainable elderly health-care system. This coupled with a migrant crisis have created extra social and economic pressures in Europe in particularly. As it has been well documented by social scientists, people are living longer than ever before. There are two fundamental factors that are helping people live to an old age, which are as follows: (a) a better quality of life and (b) improved health-care system at state level. However, since the global financial crisis of 2008 populations across the world are living in an age of austerity. The age of austerity has brought extra financial pressures on the state, polarizing society by implementing cuts in welfare. The reason many governments across the world (e.g., United States, United Kingdom, and Greece) have enforced a series of austerity measures is fundamentally to reduce debt. The aim of this article is to critically explore the austerity social policy agenda within the context of the debates surrounding the refugee or migrant crisis in the elderly health-care system.
KW - Aging
KW - Austerity
KW - Global financial crisis
KW - Migration
UR - https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/illness-crisis-loss/journal200976#description
U2 - 10.1177/1054137317723146
DO - 10.1177/1054137317723146
M3 - Article
VL - 25
SP - 340
EP - 360
JO - Illness Crisis and Loss
JF - Illness Crisis and Loss
SN - 1054-1373
IS - 4
ER -