Teasing the easing of the Care Act 2014: Transparent legal protection or hidden unmet need?
“Carers already play a vital role in the care and support system and their contribution during this emergency period will …
Tag Archives: COVID-19
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 …
Lockdown 2.0: Gunpowder Plot, Digital Christmas, Sex and Relationships
Hannah R. Marston1 & Deborah J. Morgan2 1Research Fellow, Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, The Open University, Milton Keynes, …
Lost in the Community: A Brief History of Covid-19 and Residential and Nursing Home Care
Chris Phillipson, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) So, the question (see blog on April 8th) ‘Can society …
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 …
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 …
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