Aging in the time of COVID: Racism, Isolation, and Meaning

项目总结/摘要 2019冠状病毒病疫情照亮并加剧了长期存在的 美国对老年黑人、土著人和有色人种的系统性种族主义 以及对为老年人服务的一线医护人员的保护不足，许多 他们自己就是BIPoC。COVID-19的病例，住院和死亡率都高于 与非西班牙裔白色老年人相比， 成人和一线医护人员。作为现有父母的行政补充 奖项（推进老龄化研究的多样性（阿达尔）R25），这项研究的目的是 让历史上代表性不足的本科生参与研究， 了解老年人的衰老，孤立，种族主义和意义的经验， 和一线医护人员。作为一个专门针对生物伦理学研究的项目， 研究使用Photovoice研究和视觉描绘种族主义，孤立和意义的影响 关于65岁以上的BIRECT成年人和BIRECT一线医护人员的生活经验 在新冠肺炎大流行期间与老年人一起工作。本科生（n=15）和 将从圣凯瑟琳大学招募年龄较大的一线卫生工作者（n=15） 将从当地住房和独立生活资源中招募成年人（n=30）。Photovoice 是一种社区参与的参与式研究方法，参与者拍摄， 反思一个特定的社区问题，通过大规模的 小组讨论照片，并以一种 展览，以影响社区领袖和告知社会变革。

Project Summary/Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated and intensified the long-standing pandemic of systemic racism in the United States for older Black, Indigenous, and persons of color (BIPoC) and inadequate protections for frontline healthcare workers who serve older adults, many of them BIPoC themselves. Cases of COVID-19, hospitalizations and mortality are higher among BIPoC older adults and frontline healthcare workers compared to non-Hispanic White older adults and frontline healthcare workers. As an administrative supplement to an existing parent award (Advancing Diversity in Aging Research (ADAR) R25), the purpose of this research is to engage historically underrepresented undergraduate students in a research study aimed at understanding the experience of aging, isolation, racism and meaning for BIPoC older adults and frontline healthcare workers. As a project specific to bioethics research, this qualitative study uses Photovoice to study and visually portray the impact of racism, isolation and meaning on the lived experience of BIPoC adults over age 65 and BIPoC frontline healthcare workers who work with older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Undergraduate students (n=15) and BIPoC frontline health workers (n=15) will be recruited from St. Catherine University while older adults (n=30) will be recruited from local housing and independent living resources. Photovoice is a community-engaged participatory research approach in which participants photograph and reflect upon a particular community issue, engage in critical consciousness through large and small group conversations about the photographs, and disseminate the photographs in an exhibition to influence community leaders and inform social change.