Table Of ContentAgeing and COVID-19
This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of
ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the frst collections of its kind, it
offers an array of studies employing research methodologies that lend them-
selves to replication in similar contexts by those seeking to understand the
effects of epidemics on older people. Thematically organised, it shows how
to reconcile qualitative and quantitative approaches, thus rendering them
complementary, bringing together studies from around the world to offer
an international perspective on ageing as it relates to an unprecedented epi-
demiological phenomenon. As such, it will appeal to researchers in the feld
of gerontology, as well as sociologists of medicine and clinicians seeking
to understand the disruptive effects of the recent coronavirus outbreak on
later life.
Maria Łuszczyńska is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences
at the Pontifcal University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. She is the
editor of Researching Ageing: Methodological Challenges and their Empirical
Background.
Marvin Formosa is Associate Professor in the Department of Gerontology
and Dementia Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta,
Malta. Recent publications include The University of the Third Age and Ac-
tive Ageing and Population Ageing in the Middle-East and North Africa (with
Abdulrazak Abyad).
Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life
This series publishes scholarly monographs and edited volumes concerned
with the social aspects of ageing and later life, with particular emphasis on
issues such as social exclusion and the lived environment, poverty, health
and illness, access to services, the family, connectedness and independence,
as well as work centred on research methods in relation to ageing.
Titles in this series
Ageing and COVID-19
Making Sense of a Disrupted World
Edited by Maria Łuszczyńska and Marvin Formosa
Ageing as a Social Challenge
Individual, Family and Social Aspects in Poland
Maria Łuszczyńska
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.
com/sociology/series/SPALL
Ageing and COVID-19
Making Sense of a Disrupted World
Edited by
Maria Łuszczyńska and
Marvin Formosa
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Names: Łuszczyńska, Maria, 1977- editor. | Formosa, Martin, editor.
Title: Ageing and Covid-19: making sense of a disrupted world /
edited by Maria Łuszczyńska and Martin Formosa.
Description: 1 Edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series:
Social perspectives on ageing and later life | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021038845 (print) | LCCN 2021038846 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781032194677 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032194691 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003259329 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Aging—Research—Methodology. | Social
gerontology—Methodology. | COVID-19 (Disease)—Social aspects.
Classification: LCC HQ1061 .A4244116 2022 (print) | LCC HQ1061
(ebook) | DDC 362.6—dc23/eng/20211013
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ISBN: 9781032194677 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781032194691 (pbk)
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DOI: 10.4324/b22774
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The publication is created within the project Global Ageing
Research Partnership. The project is fnanced by the Polish
National Agency for Academic Exchange.
Maria Łuszczyńska dedicates the book to
those who support and bring her to be creative and revealing,
especially to her daughter Kalina
Marvin Formosa dedicates the book to
Fiona, friend and wife, and to Emma and Julian,
each of whom has a special place in his heart
Contents
List of contributors xiii
Introduction: the challenges facing ageing during COVID-19
MARVIN FORMOSA AND MARIA ŁUSZCZYŃ SKA
PART 1
COVID-19 as the unknown 11
1 The phenomenon of the COVID-19 pandemic
against the background of its era 13
BOHDAN W. WASILEWSKI
2 COVID-19 lockdown and social distance measures:
a ‘perfect storm’ for social isolation and loneliness in later life 32
MARVIN FORMOSA
3 Death and dying vs. COVID-19: a hermeneutic approach
toward understanding the social process 46
MARIA ŁUSZCZYŃSKA
PART 2
Social attitudes and strategies 69
4 Unmasking features of the state of the epidemic: what is the
uniqueness of the position of older people in Poland? 71
MARIOLA RACŁ AW AND DOBRONIEGA GŁĘBOCKA
5 Ageing and ageism in COVID-19 times 88
GRZEGORZ GODAWA
