While British media focuses on the pandemic’s effect on young people, it ignores the most vulnerable – elderly women.
![A resident looks out of her bedroom window at Fremantle Trust care home, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Princes Risborough, Britain, May 5, 2020 [Eddie Keogh/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RTX7HEVN.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Ella Fegitz is a postdoc in Humanistic Ageing Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.
While British media focuses on the pandemic’s effect on young people, it ignores the most vulnerable – elderly women.
![A resident looks out of her bedroom window at Fremantle Trust care home, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Princes Risborough, Britain, May 5, 2020 [Eddie Keogh/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RTX7HEVN.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)