The invisible older men (ASC0002)

Hadley, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4254-7648 (2022) The invisible older men (ASC0002). House of Lords, UK Parliament, London.

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Abstract

My reason for submitting is my concern regarding future health and care policy and practice for older people who are ageing without children childless (AWoC) or family (AWoF). Both these groups are invisible in current datasets and yet form a significant minority of the general and other populations, for example LGBTIQQ people. My submission is based on a specific findings from my doctoral study on male involuntary childlessness[1]: the failure to collect the father’s fertility history at birth registration (as a mother’s is) and its impact on current and future health and social care policy and practice. In 2020 the Office for National Statistics (ONS)[2] published a report on the predicted tripling in the number of older childless women by 2045.