Future data collection endeavours must do much more to appropriately represent older ethnic minority people, as some of the most disadvantaged and marginalised communities. These datasets must more adequately capture longitudinal or life course socio-economic realities and experiences of racism and discrimination, to better india rcs data understand the clear divergent inequalities shown in the video.
There is a risk that the important evidence generated by this project and others remain within the echo chambers of the academy. But the people who can act upon it and make change.
This is why we are releasing this video to explain our early findings, and to initiate the conversation about older ethnic minority people specifically. We will continue to translate our findings for different outlets throughout our project, and actively open up conversations which go beyond merely describing data and statistics; we want the implications of our results to be heard by those with the power to effect change for ethnic minority older people.