COVID-19 Pandemic and Ageism: A Call for Humanitarian Care

J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2020 Sep 16;75(9):1786-1787. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glaa140.

Authors

Christopher C Colenda¹, Charles F Reynolds², William B Applegate³, Philip D Sloane⁴, Sheryl Zimmerman⁴, Anne B Newman⁵, Suzanne Meeks⁶, Joseph G Ouslander⁷

Affiliations

¹ The West Virginia University Health System, Morgantown, West Virginia.
² Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
³ Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
⁴ Co-Editor-in Chief, Journal of American Medical Directors Association.
⁵ Editor-in-Chief, Medical Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.
⁶ Editor-in-Chief, The Gerontologist.
⁷ Executive Editor, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Ageism* / prevention & control
Ageism* / psychology
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Clinical Decision-Making / ethics
Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections* / prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections* / psychology
Health Services for the Aged / standards*
Humans
Intergenerational Relations
Pandemics* / prevention & control
Patient Care* / ethics
Patient Care* / methods
Patient Care* / psychology
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral* / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral* / psychology
Resilience, Psychological*
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2
United States