COVID-19 y Personas mayores: representaciones sociales en el Ministerio de Salud de Chile

• Autor: Salazar Norambuena, Carola
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/185699
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/23452/23457; https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202102.008
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Older adults; Chile; Ageism; Framing analysis; Personas mayores; Viejismo; COVID-19 (Enfermedad); Frames; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.04.03

Social representations are a set of ideas, practices and ideals that are part of the common sense of a group. Generally, the study of older adults’representations is conducted by looking at the media, however, this research incorporates a key agent in the health/ disease /care processes: the Ministry of Health. The main objective of this article is to identify older adults’ representations found in the Chilean Ministry of Health (MINSAL) news portal website during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Using framing analysis, four types of frames were found: age sub-groups, terms for referring to older adults, risk group and social solidarity. These four framesshare some ageist qualities, that is, they have a biased view of older people, representing them as a homogeneous, dependent and without agency group, since other people speak for them.