Othering and Deprioritizing Older Adults' Lives: Ageist Discourses During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Othering and Deprioritizing Older Adults' Lives: Ageist Discourses During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Roger Andre Søraa, Federico Manzi, Mark W Kharas, Antonella Marchetti, Davide Massaro, Giuseppe Riva, J Artur Serrano

The COVID-19 pandemic is showing troubling othering demographic discourses. For older adults in particular, there are concerning thematics that should be shined light on. In this editorial, we provide perspectives from three countries: Norway, Italy and the United States. We provide four topics of discussion that can be utilized to further understand othering discoures of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as potential future disasters.

2020

coronavirus, covid-19, Pandemic, older adults, ageism, othering, deprioritizing

10.5964/ejop.v16i4.4127

Europe's journal of psychology