Table 1 Terms used to refer to age-related differential healthcare delivery or receipt
From: Identifying inequitable healthcare in older people: systematic review of current research practice
Age bias | Foregone care | Withholding effective treatment |
Age-related | Gaps | Overlooked group |
Age-dependent | Guideline deviation | Over-use |
Ageism | Incomplete diagnostic assessment | Poorer access to appropriate care |
Ageist in terms of access to provision | Inequality/inequalities | Poor quality of care |
Ageist neglect | Inequity/inequitable | Relinquishment of care |
Barriers to care | (In) appropriate care | Reluctance |
Decreased use | Less likely to receive | Restriction in access |
Denial of treatment | Limited use | Relative neglect |
Difference/differences | Lower use | Risk-treatment paradox |
Disparity/disparities | Low levels of receipt | Structural inequalities |
Differential/differentials | Misfit between care and needs | Sub-optimal management |
Disadvantaged | Not receiving adequate investigations and community therapy | Treated less aggressively |
Discrimination | Universal access | Under-treatment |
Disproportionate | Unmet need | Under-utilisation/under-use |
Dissimilarities in care/utilisation | Variations | Under-representation |
Discrepancy | Variability | Unfair system |
Denied access | Variations based on non-clinical factors | Uneven distribution |
Equity in access | ||
Equity/equitable |