Loneliness, friendship and the emotions inside a nursing home
Francisca Ortiz, The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester. **Spoiler Alert: This blog post assumed that you …
Tag Archives: Ageism
Chronological Quarantine: Evidence-Based Ageism & Ageist Evidence
The scientific-political milieu of Covid-19 encompasses numerous fraught debates. Among them, arguments about targeting restrictions at older people have animated …
Owning Silver
Irene van Nispen Kress turned 50. Feeling the peculiar weight that attaches itself to this milestone, she set out to …
Prisoners of space: How the COVID-19 lockdown is deepening inequalities in later life
Chris Phillipson, Camilla Lewis, Tine Buffel, Patty Doran and Sophie Yarker Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group, the University of Manchester …
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 …
Ageism and the coronavirus crisis. Why an age-based selective lockdown policy is wrong.
I’m not sure this qualifies as a blog perhaps more of a structured rant. But I’m getting increasingly infuriated at …
The Last Accepted ‘ism’
It can be argued that society is successfully tackling racism and sexism amongst other forms of prejudice. Well, in terms …
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