Can welfare-rights advice targeted at older people reduce social exclusion?

Ageing and Society

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 875-899

  Moffatt, Suzanne ^a   Scambler, Graham ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Poverty; Quality of life; Social exclusion; Welfare rights

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; HEALTH CARE; PENSION SYSTEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; SERVICE PROVISION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; WELFARE ECONOMICS; WELFARE PROVISION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47049122800     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X08007253     Document Type: Article

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