Events

Intersections of ageing and disability during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidencing the need for an ‘anti-ableist and anti-ageist ethics of care’ to ensure human rights and dignity in society

This online lunchtime seminar will be presented by Dr Bethany Simmonds (Aberystwyth University). The pandemic exposed the loss of human rights of older and disabled people and illustrated the critical commonalities these two groups have. As sociologists with personal and professional experience of ageing and disability, myself and my co-editor, Dr Maria Berghs (de Montfort…