|The Impact of Corona Confinement on Older People’s Mental Health: Some Reflections
Covid-19 has had a profound impact on all of our lives. Whilst attention was initially paid to reducing the number …
Category Archives: Health
BSG2020 British Society of Gerontology Online series: Full details for events 1st – 3rd July 2020 and ERA event 30th June and 1st July
The BSG2020 Online Events series is fast approaching, and we are delighted to confirm the full details for what is …
Age and Ageism during Covid-19
Written by Professor Sarah Vickerstaff, University of Kent. This blog was first published on 21 April 2020 on the Equality …
Sheila Peace; response to ‘care homes: don’t leave them to die’.
(Sheila Peace, Emeritus Professor of Social Care, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University). Today’s Evening Standard …
Time to Confront the Portrait in the Attic? Reflections on Theories and Discourses of Ageing sparked by the COVID-19 crisis
The way in which older age is understood and discussed seemed to turn on a dime during these awful weeks …
Covid-19 and the crisis in residential and nursing home care
Posted by Chris Phillipson, Manchester Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing (MICRA) Can society be trusted to run care homes? …
Covid-19: Statement from the President and Members of the National Executive Committee of the British Society of Gerontology
A pdf of this statement can be downloaded from the British Society of Gerontology website The British Society of Gerontology …
COVID-19 vs Social Isolation: the Impact Technology can have on Communities, Social Connections and Citizens
Hannah R. Marston1, Charles Musselwhite2, & Robin Hadley3 1Health and Wellbeing Priority Research Area, The Open University, Milton Keynes. Hannah.Marston@open.ac.uk …
Co-creativity and Dementia: a development day for artists.
In recent years, use of the term co-creativity seems to be steadily growing – this despite the fact that it …
Tweeting into the Millennium… Hints and Tips to Using Social Media
Social media is used by many of us as part of our daily lives – similar to checking our emails …
