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Older people are treated with less respect today compared to ten years ago. This is the startling finding from a piece of research commissioned by the Changing Ageing Partnership to launch Age Awareness Week on 01 October 2007.
60% of people feel that older people are treated with less respect than ten years ago.
To support the launch of Age Awareness Week and its theme of respect, the Changing Ageing Partnership commissioned independent research into respect and older people.
The research was carried out by Millward Brown in August 2007 and raised some interesting points about our attitutdes to older people in Northern Ireland. Over 7 out of 10 people felt that society doesn't respect older people enough, while almost two out of three thought that older people are now treated with less respect than ten years ago.
However, on a more positive note 97% of those surveyed agreed, everyone has a responsibility to ensure older people in Northern Ireland are respected. That ‘everyone’ includes:
Anne O’Reilly, spokesperson for the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) and Age Awareness Week said:
"The findings of the research are especially poignant in a week when we are highlighting the importance of respect for older people.
"One of the key objectives of CAP is to provide older people with the framework, skills, knowledge and voice to campaign on their own behalf: to challenge the stereotypes that exist around being older and to achieve a better quality of life.
"As our research shows, people are in agreement that more should to be done to ensure older people are respected. The Changing Ageing Partnership is committed to empowering older people and supporting them to campaign on issues important to them.
"We hope local government, bodies and the wider society will take note of the activities taking place as part of Age Awareness Week and will step up to the challenge set out in order to ensure that older people have the respect they deserve and their rightful place in society."
The Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) was established in December 2005 to improve the quality of life for older people. Funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies for five years, the partnership brings together:
The CAP vision is ‘a strong informed voice capable of challenging and changing attitudes and approaches to ageing.’
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