Dementia and the COVID-19 Virus
This paper uses the lens of the COVID-19 epidemic to look at the social ecology of dementia and older people, how it is being disrupted by the effects of the virus, and what the impact may be in the short and medium term.
Writing in 2009, Melissa Leach and colleagues (Leach et al, abstract) argued for “flexibility, diversity, adaptation, learning and reflexivity” in governance models for managing epidemics within progressive political models of sustainability. These need to incorporate “explicit concern for equity, social justice and the wellbeing of poor and marginalised groups”.1
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