COVID-19 and SPELLED AGEISM: What Effect Does The Pandemic Have On Older People?

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND The major aim of this discussion is to spotlight the ageism that has appeared during the COVID-19. Here we discusses about how the older people are wrongly presented in our community and their less value in the society. During this pandemic, covid-19 was resulted into major cause of death for older adults.Ageism is generally seen in the western and developing societies and here, older people are seen with false beliefs and judgments. To overcome this, the health authorities should consider older adults to be an integral part of the population, they should not feel burdened by them. OBJECTIVE The article provides a review of the literature on behaviour and attitudes toward ageism and older adults in the world and discusses the facts and findings on the basis of the review of literature on ageing, age stereotypes, impact of ageism on older people as well as their link toculture and society. METHODS This review articles was published from June 2020 to January 2021 and indexed in the electronic databases Web of Science, PubMed, and WHO official website. Electronic searches were made with visual scanning of reference lists and hand searching of leading journals in the field of ageing and social gerontology. RESULTS During covid-19 pandemic, flexibility of old age should be adopted. Here the treatment should be depends upon chronological age as well as on values and preferences of people. An alternative framework must be established which shows the negative impact of the corona virus on the population. We must stop saying terms called social distancing and better call the best appropriate term such as physical distancing.In the social world, the major asset of emergency situations is intergenerational relation without this relation the life of older people become vulnerable. CONCLUSION In this article, advocates and public health researcher share their opinion about ageism, and try their efforts to reduce the perspective of people towards the older adults that appeared at the time of covid-19. This pandemic shows high mortality rates for older adults than younger adults. We cannot afford to be inattentive for the lost lives caused by ageist behaviour and attitudes. We need to think about of what will happen if we let ageism influence,and how thediscussion and treatment of old people affects during and after the pandemic. © The Electrochemical Society