Gender remains one of the primary structures that affects quality of life in old age. Recent research demonstrates a variety of ways in which age and gender may interact, not to mention their relations with other power structures. In this paper, we comparatively examine men and women at different ages to observe the differential impact of age and gender on their lives and to identify spaces of exclusion in old age in Poland. We use data from the large scale national representative survey of the Social Diagnosis from the years 2000–2015 and intersect gender, age, socio-economic status, disability and education in our analysis. The results point at two particularly disadvantaged groups: older women and low-educated older men who also dominate various spaces of exclusion. We use these findings to problematize the understanding of exclusion in later life and to argue for an inter-sectional approach in ageing polices promoting social cohesion.
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