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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1849
igaa057.1849
Abstracts
Session 5330 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Social Exclusion in Health and Social Services Offered to Minority Patients: Do Racialization and Racism Play Roles?
Torres Sandra  
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”561 561
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Cultural and ethnic differences stemming from migration are a source of social exclusion in old age. This topic is of concern in part because an increased migration flow coupled with growing anti-immigrants sentiments in much of the Western world can ignite social exclusion mechanisms even when unintended. Given these trends, we ask whether racism figures in research on ethno-cultural and racial older minorities. Thus, based on a scoping review of peer-reviewed articles published between 1998-2017 (n=336), this presentation asks if, and how, racialization and racism inform this research. In answering these questions, this presentation will argue that the role that racism plays as a social exclusion mechanism that affects older ethnic and racial minorities needs to be studied in a systematic fashion. Part of a symposium sponsored by the International Aging and Migration Interest Group.