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Letter to the Editor: Inappropriate language diminishes older people

We are specialists (signed by more than 150 people) spanning fields of nursing, public health, health systems, medicine, health and social care professionals, social policy, advocacy and NGO organisations.

Letter to the Editor: Inappropriate language diminishes older people — "We ask that those in a position to shape the narrative of older people’s experiences in our media do so carefully."

Fri, 24 Apr, 2020 - 01:01

We are specialists (signed by more than 150 people) spanning fields of nursing, public health, health systems, medicine, health and social care professionals, social policy, advocacy and NGO organisations.

We write to express our utmost concern over recent examples of the inappropriate use of language by some media outlets in their reporting of the current Covid-19 pandemic.

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