Covid-19, Older Adults and the Ageing Society

COVID-19 has brought unprecedented challenges in the care of older adults. During the first surge of the pandemic, governments all over the world struggled with high disease severity and increased mortality among older adults.

Suhita Chopra Chatterjee is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. She works in the field of Health and Medicine with a special focus on Ageing and End-of-life care. Debolina Chatterjee is Assistant Professor at Xavier Law School, St. Xavier's University Kolkata. She completed her Ph.D. from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and Masters in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests include Sociology of Health, Ageing and Prisons.

1.Introduction, 2.Rearing its Ugly Head: Ageism and COVID, 3.Care Homes: The Neglected Cinderella Sector, 4.Geriatric Harm of Public Health Measures, 5. Revisiting the Ageing Carescape, 6.First Surge COVID Lessons for an Ageing World, 7.Older Adults Amidst a Persisting Pandemic: An Epilogue