Covid-19, Older Adults and the Ageing Society

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
1. Introduction
	COVID-19: The Making of a Pandemic
	The Therapeutic Void: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to the Rescue
	Older Adults at the Centre of the COVID Storm
2. Rearing Its Ugly Head: Ageism and COVID
	Containing COVID: Constructing Older Adults as a “Risk Group”
	Rationing COVID Treatment: Using Age as a Criterion
	Older Adult-Specific Care Needs: The Dismissed Agenda in COVID Care
	The Worsening Crisis of Pervasive Ageism
	Combating the Culture of Ageism during Pandemic
3. Care Homes: The Neglected Cinderella Sector
	The Historic Neglect: The Cinderella Sector
	Ground Zero and the “Perfect Storm” for the Pandemic: European Care Homes
	Better But Still Not Well: American and Canadian Long-Term Care
	Getting Responses Right
	Caring Without Being Cared For: Challenges in Residential Aged Caregiving
	Residents in the Besieged Castles
4. Geriatric Harm of Public Health Measures
	Beyond Mortality and Morbidity: Increasing Loneliness, Fear and Anxieties
	The Dismissed Environmental Concerns in Public Health Measures
	Lockdown and Economic Impacts on the Aged
	Compliance with Public Health Recommendations: Challenges for Older Adults
	Portraying Hospitals as Warzones: Public Health Impacts of Fear and Delayed Treatment
	The Darwinian Struggle: Aged at the Margins—Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Migrants, Refugees, Homeless and Incarcerated
	Public Health and the Legal Imbroglio: Disquieting Issues in the Care of the Aged
5. Revisiting the Ageing Carescape
	The Grand Vision on Older Adult Care: Why Ageing Frameworks Failed in Practice
	Hiatus Between Words and Practice: Locating the Gaps
	Inadequacies in Evolution of the Long-Term Care
	Continuum of Care: Problems of Structural Integration
	Health Status and Functioning of Older Persons: Poor Conceptualization and Data on Ageing
	Inadequate Capacity for Delivering Quality Palliative and End-of-Life Care
6. First Surge COVID Lessons for an Ageing World
	Reconfiguring the Care Sector
	Improving Home Care: A Pillar of Healthcare System
	Rethinking Health Delivery Patterns
	Reorganizing Hospital-Based Care
	Rethinking Knowledge-Making: Diversification of Evidence Base
	Improving Social Determinants of Health for Pandemic Preparedness
	Refining Data for Inter-Country Comparability
	Contextually Appropriate Responses: Some Cases where Things Worked Well
7. Older Adults Amidst a Persisting Pandemic: An Epilogue
Index