The infectious spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has generated numerous media and political responses that bring together health, risk, and age. Within these responses, older people have been cast as “the vulnerable elderly” who are less socially worthy and valuable than younger people...
Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living (RAIL) Research Centre, Monash University, Frankston, VIC 3199, Australia 4 National Centre for Healthy Ageing, Monash University and Peninsula Health, Frankston, VIC 3199, Australia 5 Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame Australia, Perth...