Publications by authors named "Laura D Allen"
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- Older people in residential care often don’t get to share their stories in the news, especially during COVID-19.
- The study looked at why they are left out by talking to journalists, care home workers, and residents.
- Some reasons include that residents are separated from the outside world, journalists don’t see them as news sources, and there are concerns about how to protect the residents' privacy. *
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- This study looked at how older people use technology and how age-related attitudes (like thinking older people can't use tech) affect them.
- Researchers reviewed 15 articles from different studies to learn about this connection between technology use and ageism.
- The findings suggest that using technology positively can help older adults feel better about aging, but negative stereotypes can make it harder for them to learn and use tech.
Background And Objectives: In the fall of 2020, it became clear that the initial doses of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine would be limited, and a priority order would be necessary. This article examines the perceptions of old age in the context of establishing a priority order for the COVID-19 vaccine from the perspective of online newspaper commenters. Two research questions are investigated: (a) How do commenters place older people in line for the COVID-19 vaccine? and (b) What frames and factors do commenters use as reasoning for their proposed position of older adults?
Research Design And Methods: This study involves a frame analysis of 440 online comments on an article published by The New York Times on December 1, 2020 about the U.
Background And Objectives: This study examines the discursive construction of residential care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 3 leading American newspapers: The New York Times, USA Today, and The New York Post.
Research Design And Methods: A total of 54 news articles between January 21 and May 8, 2020 were identified from the LexisNexis academic database for analysis. The articles were analyzed using both a critical discourse analysis approach and a thematic analytical framework.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we face an exacerbation of ageism as well as a flourish of intergenerational solidarity. The use of chronological age is an unjustified threshold for the creation of public policies to control the spreading of the virus; doing so reinforces intrapersonal and interpersonal negative age stereotypes and violates older persons' human rights to autonomy, proper care treatment, work, and equality. By overlooking differences within age groups, measures formulated solely on the basis of age are unable to target beneficiaries' needs.
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