Coronavirus, Ageism, and Twitter: An Evaluation of Tweets about Older Adults and COVID-19.

Maria Renee Jimenez-SotomayorCarolina Gomez-MorenoEnrique Soto Pérez de Celis

Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2020)

Most tweets related to COVID-19 and older adults contained personal opinions, personal accounts, and jokes. Almost one-quarter of analyzed tweets had ageist or potentially offensive content toward older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc 68:1661-1665, 2020.

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