Ageing and COVID-19 (eBook, ePUB)

Making Sense of a Disrupted World
Redaktion: Luszczynska, Maria; Formosa, Marvin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of ageing during a pandemic situation, offering an array of studies from around the world to provide an international perspective on how best to understand the effects of the recent coronavirus outbreak on those in later life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000531084
• Artikelnr.: 63022931

Autorenporträt

Maria ¿uszczy¿ska is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. She is the editor of Researching Ageing: Methodological Challenges and their Empirical Background. Marvin Formosa is Associate Professor in the Department of Gerontology and Dementia Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, Malta. Recent publications include The University of the Third Age and Active Ageing and Population Ageing in the Middle-East and North Africa (with Abdulrazak Abyad).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the challenges facing ageing during COVID-19 Part 1: COVID-19
as the unknown 1. The phenomenon of the COVID-19 pandemic against the
background of its era 2. COVID-19 lockdown and social distance measures: a
'perfect storm' for social isolation and loneliness in later life 3. Death
and dying vs. COVID-19: a hermeneutic approach toward understanding the
social process Part 2: Social attitudes and strategies 4. Unmasking
features of the state of the epidemic: what is the uniqueness of the
position of older people in Poland? 5. Ageing and ageism in COVID-19 times
6. Age division and ageism in the public debates regarding COVID-19:
intergenerational solidarity and antagonisms in the era of the coronavirus
pandemic 7. Older adults' coping strategies in a pandemic situation: a
Polish case study 8. Support for older adults during COVID-19: how did
local authorities in the Pomeranian region respond to the challenge? Part
3: Social life 9. Geragogy of everyday life: the COVID-19 perspective 10.
Online learning for older persons during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malta:
the good, the bad, and the ugly 11. Grandparents raising grandchildren
during coronavirus pandemic: a challenge or a threat? 12. "Keeping a
project during the COVID-19 pandemic alive": experiences with
co-researchers of the participatory STARK project 13. The experience of
loneliness in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Polish
perspective 14. Older adults' religiosity during the COVID-19 pandemic:
Catholic Church in action Part 4: Social care and support 15. To care or
not to care? What have we learned from COVID-19 about our attitudes towards
older adults? 16. Institutional care for older people in Poland during
pandemic: regulations, practice and thoughts about the future 17.
Internet-telephone consultation service for older persons 18. Everyday
reality at nursing home care facilities experienced during the COVID-19
pandemic 19. Feedback from French nursing staff in gerontology: health
reorganisation acceptance related to COVID-19 crisis Conclusion: ageing,
COVID-19 and 'new normality'