Table 3: Percentage Distribution by Ethnic Group \u2013 Greater Glasgow (Greater Glasgow NHS Information Services, 2005)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThis study focusses on the older people (aged over 65) who live in the most settled migrant groups, for whom the periods of adjustment at individual, infrastructural and systemic level, have been longest. These people continue to live primarily in south\u00accentral Glasgow and the study concentrated on this geographical area.<\/p>\n
The 2001 census indicates that across the whole of Glasgow 19% of the white population is over 65 whilst just over 5% of the Black and Minority Ethnic population was over 65 (9). However, recent population projections for BME older people suggest steep increases in proportions of older people (Wohland, P. 2010 (10); Lievesley, N. 2010 (11)). Of the eight wards that comprise Glasgow South\u00a0social work area, the population in June 2011 of people over the age of 65 was 30,144 \u2013 13.7% of the total population (12).<\/p>\n
Govanhill, one of wards at the heart of this geographical area, has seen a 14.1% drop in the population of people of white Scottish, British or Irish origin and a 10.4% increase in people from BME backgrounds in the period 2001 \u2013 2008 according to Glasgow City Council estimates. The total BME population (including \u201cOther White\u201d category) living in Glasgow South social work area in 2010 is estimated at 31,641.<\/p>\n
This is nearly half of the total BME population living in Glasgow and suggests the number of older people from ethnic minority backgrounds living in the south of Glasgow is somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 individuals.<\/p>\n
For this report, the researchers spoke to 97 older people living in the area who were from BME groups. Two thirds of these gave their ethnic origin, with 92% of these being from Pakistani or Indian backgrounds and the remainder being of Iranian, Bengali, Afghani, Romanian or Somalian backgrounds.<\/p>\n
\n(8)\u00a0The health and social care experiences of BME older people<\/em> \u2013 Better Health Briefing Update 9, Moriarty J, 2012,<\/p>\n(9)\u00a0Ethnic Group Profile from the 2001 Census NHS Greater Glasgow Area<\/em>, Boyd, A et al, GGNHSB Information Services 2005<\/p>\n(10)\u00a0Ethnic Population Projections for the UK and Local Areas, 20012051<\/em>, Wohland, P., Rees, P., Norman, P., Boden, P. & Jasinska, M. (2010) Leeds: University of Leeds, School of Geography.<\/p>\n(11) The Future Ageing of the Ethnic Minority Population of England and Wales<\/em>, Lievesley, N (2010) London:\u00a0Runnymede Trust\/Centre for Policy on Ageing.<\/p>\n(12) Glasgow City Council Social Work Area Demographics Report<\/em>, Mokrovich J, Performance and Research Team, Social Work Services Glasgow City Council, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The south of Glasgow has long been an area of the city favoured by people from diverse ethnic backgrounds and contains the highest densities of people from these groups in both the Glasgow City Council local authority area and the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board area. Some movement in these population densities is … Continue reading Context<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}