On Vulnerability, Resilience, and Age: Older Americans Reflect on the Pandemic

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.