Category: Age of COVID

The power of bingo during COVID-19

Though popular ideas depict bingo as a silly game, which creates idle, disengaged older adults, I found the contrary; bingo had the power to enliven residents and to form among them feelings of connection and community.

Call for additional contributions: “The Age of COVID-19” series

Dear colleagues, Here’s hoping that you and yours are keeping safe and well. And hoping also that you have seen and appreciated the eight installments (so far) in the “Age of COVID-19” blog post series, a collaborative effort between AAGE and Somatosphere. If not, you can find it on our AAGE site, or on Somatosphere. […]

Caring in the time of corona: Technological possibilities and limitations

When it comes to technology in health and care, it appears the pandemic has quickly accelerated the pace and spread of new innovations and re-purposed older ones.

“There are worse places to spend a lockdown”: Privileged and at risk British retirees in Spain

This was the new reality that was slowly setting in amongst a small group of British retiree migrants in the Costa Brava. Between the banter and jokes, they were starting to come to terms with the fact that they were clearly an ‘at risk’ group when it came to the growing worldwide pandemic of Coronavirus.

Virginia’s story: How the COVID-19 crisis can help us think about older adults who live in perennial abandonment

In the current context of COVID-19, all of us, without exception, are experiencing firsthand the difficulties of social distancing. Thinking about how this new order will govern our subjectivity and our affect causes worry and desperation.

Of grandparents, memories and the pandemic

While growing up in a small town in the eastern state of Bengal (India), our summer vacations would be spent in Kolkata at the maternal grandparents’ home. My grandfather would tell us haunting stories of poverty, hunger and death in the most quotidian manner. In doing so, he sought to make the spontaneity and unpredictability of life “knowable”.

COVID-19: Bringing the social back in

An understanding of COVID-19’s social impact is especially important, both for increasing the effectiveness of interventions and for mitigating the consequences for particular groups.

Of dogs and their humans: Late life in a more-than-human world of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Cristina Douglas, University of Aberdeen (Scotland) Sometimes when we go to the park, Bruce – my canine research assistant – and I meet with another more-than-human pair, who join us for a game of fetch. The other pair, both human and dog, are quite old and slow, and pace to each other’s rhythm […]

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Category: Age of COVID

The power of bingo during COVID-19

Call for additional contributions: “The Age of COVID-19” series

Caring in the time of corona: Technological possibilities and limitations

“There are worse places to spend a lockdown”: Privileged and at risk British retirees in Spain

Virginia’s story: How the COVID-19 crisis can help us think about older adults who live in perennial abandonment

Of grandparents, memories and the pandemic

Of dogs and their humans: Late life in a more-than-human world of the COVID-19 pandemic

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