Working with Older People: Volume 24 Issue 4

Our special issue on COVID-19

Simone Bacchini

Dying in lockdown

Tina Wallace

This study aims to share a personal viewpoint on the hardship imposed by lockdown measure.

Technological advancements to address elderly loneliness: practical considerations and community resilience implications for COVID-19 pandemic

Kristina M. Conroy, Srikripa Krishnan, Stacy Mittelstaedt, Sonny S. Patel

Loneliness has been a known severe public health concern among the elderly population during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper aims to discuss the practicalities of using emerging…

Older peoples’ sacrifice during COVID-19 pandemic

Adalberto Fernandes

This paper aims to reflect on the roles that are socially attributed to older people in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Misunderstandings about older people fuel corona virus complacency

Ellery Altshuler

The purpose of this paper is to explore public assumptions underlying the apparent disregard for the lives of older people during the coronavirus outbreak. It attempts to dispel…

Caught between two fronts: successful aging in the time of COVID-19

Lukas Richter, Theresa Heidinger

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a great challenge for older people both in terms of the severity of the disease and the negative consequences of social distancing. Assumptions about…

Bring it on Covid-19: being an older person in developing countries during a pandemic

Setayesh Sattari, Soniya Billore

This study aims to explore the respective risk perception toward the Covid-19 pandemic among the elderly in two developing countries and their lifestyle change and adaptation…

Social work assessments for people with advanced dementia in “the new normal”

Hilary Wilson

Social work involves working directly with people who are experiencing a crisis. An assessment is carried out to establish the best way forward and then reviewed after a period of…

COVID-19 and gender infectivity-mortality rate among Pakistani population

Sadia Zia

This paper includes regional, behavioral and biological issues of men that lead them to high mortality rate in Pakistan. The study was design to factories the major cause of…

COVID-19 lockdown: the unspoken toll on the 65+ community in Turkey

Ozgur Ates

On March 21, 2020, the Turkish Government imposed a curfew for citizens 65 years old and over and ordered them to stay at home as a measure to protect them against the COVID-19…

Museums working with older people in times of pandemic

Rita Grácio

The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the work with/for/about older people being undertaken by museums during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, thinking of…