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 …
Tag Archives: intergenerational conflict
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 …
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 We urge the Government to …
Downsizing: should financial incentives be offered to “the elderly” to downsize?
A government White Paper published today indicates (on p63) that the government will be exploring ways to encourage older people …
Scrapping the Pensions Triple Lock? Time to re-frame the debate.
Over the weekend, the Work and Pensions Select Committee called on the government to scrap the pensions triple lock, framing it …
Let’s stop the ill informed language of intergenerational conflict, time for generational cohesion
Two interesting things happened today. The Office for National Statistics published data showing that we now have, for the first …
How the media love discourses of intergenerational conflict
I have found myself Dr Angry over the last two days. I mean Dr Really Angry. It started with the …
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