MUARG's 'Covid-19 and inequality' paper published

Members of MICRA's Manchester Urban Ageing Group (MUARG) have authored the paper “Covid-19 and inequality: developing an age-friendly strategy for recovery in low income communities”.

The paper explores the social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on issues facing older people living in urban areas characterised by multiple deprivation.

The paper identifies and reviews a wide range of inequalities. In light of these, it then discusses ‘developing age-friendly recovery planning’. The authors sketch out an agenda based around five main themes:

1. prioritising areas of multiple deprivation in future government spending;
2. developing locally-based partnerships working across organisational boundaries;
3. challenging social inequality, stigma, and discrimination;
4. changing the narrative on ageing and combatting ageism; and
5. integrating social science research with policy.

Read the full paper.