#publichealthfunerals — Public Fediverse posts
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🗞️"A recent study carried out by the ESRC Centre for #Population Change at the University of Southampton found there was a ‘clear link’ between public health #funerals and #poverty. It also found Lambeth had the 2nd highest number of public health funerals in the country." Read the full article in the SW Londoner: https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/07112025-council-funerals-more-than-double-in-lambeth-as-cost-of-dying-soars-across-london
#demography #socialscience #ageing #lambeth #oldAge #olderpeople #publichealthfunerals
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📺 Missed the headline special report last week on #BBC South Evening News?
Catch up below on the discussion of new CPC-CG research on rising #publichealthfunerals. Professor Jane Falkingham discusses the link between such funerals and areas with high #deprivation and #socioeconomic #inequality. She highlights how measures need to be implemented to stop people reaching later life unable to pay for their own #funerals.
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CPC-CG researchers analysed data about #publichealthfunerals (PHFs) from hundreds of Freedom of Information requests carried out by #BBC South News.
The study also highlights an urgent need for national PHF #data coordination and further research to #forecast demand as #deprivation and #kinlessness rise.
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Watch CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham CBE speaking to #BBC South Today Breakfast about a new CPC-CG Report on rising public health #funerals in England, highlighting a need to tackle older people's deprivation.
Catch the longer bulletin on tonight's BBC South Today at 18:30.
https://youtu.be/Fr2gnC3mRbs?si=0fueSmUi-k_Yqn_3
Full story: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?action=story&id=843
#publichealthfunerals #olderpeople #deprivation #oldagepoverty #demography #socialscience #population