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News from the [ Framing Ageing ] project.
The organisers of Framing Ageing: Anne Fuchs (PI), Desmond O’Neill, Mary Cosgrove, Julia Langbein have compiled a comprehensive report on the recent interdisciplinary webinar – COVID-19 – Reframing Ageing – which took place on June 12 2020. Read it in full now.
Ailbhe Smyth was one of the speakers at the recent Covid-19 Webinar. With her permission we reproduce her wonderful contribution to the webinar.
What has the Covid-19 crisis revealed about ageing in contemporary culture? How have older age groups been represented during this crisis? Watch the video of our recent Webinar.
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.