Type of Content: News
Subtype: Blog
Resource Title: On Vulnerability, Resilience, and Age: Older Americans Reflect on the Pandemic
Publication Title: The Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course
Publish Date: July 9, 2020
We absolutely need to recognize the global toll the Covid-19 pandemic is exerting upon older people. But the prevailing narrative of the vulnerable older person in the time of Covid-19 is misleading in its uniformity. Older people in the pandemic are not only vulnerable, isolated, and dying. Many are also experiencing resilience, agency, social connections, and pleasure.
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