Maria Varlamova is a PhD student of the Jagiellonian University within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions ITN EuroAgeism. She specializes in active ageing, social policy on ageing and ageism. She graduated with honours from the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow) with a Master’s degree in Sociology (Demography) in 2013 and three years was employed as a research fellow at the Center for Comprehensive Social Policy Studies, Institute for Social Policy. In 2015 she completed the programme at the International Institute for the Aging of the United Nations (INIA Malta) on the policy design, planning, implementation and monitoring of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing. She is also a member of the Expert group on the Active Ageing Index.
Date: 06/06/2020
ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, we face an exacerbation of ageism as well as a...