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Julia Twigg is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent and a participant in [ Framing Ageing ]. In this short video she talks about Covid-19, retirement, lockdown and her experience of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwcZqzZ_DYQ
In an article for the Irish Medical Journal (Vol 113; No.4) Professor Desmond O’Neill explains why we need to protect our longevity dividend during the Covid-19 crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic poses extraordinary risks to the health of older adults and, upon contraction, has immediate consequences for individual well-being and, potentially, for mortality outcomes according to Professor Kieran Walsh, Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI Galway.
The first event of the project has been postponed due to coronavirus and will now take place in UCD on October 27-28 2020. Workshop 1 of [ Framing Ageing ] is a scoping workshop, reflecting the expertise of participants:
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic [ Framing Ageing ] project participant Dana Walrath has created these artworks.
The British Society of Gerontology (BSG) urges the UK Government to reject the formulation and implementation of policy based on the simple application of chronological age. Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and evidence of growing age divisions in society, BSG also calls on government and media organisations to be cautious in their use of language.