“The Body Becomes Closed and Squeezed up in a Narrow Frame”: Loneliness and Fears of Isolation in the Lives of Older People in Rural Areas in Karelia During COVID-19.

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  • Konstantin Galkin Department of Anthropology European University Saint-Petersburg Sociological Institute of RAS, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2020.316

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Author Biography

Konstantin Galkin, Department of Anthropology European University Saint-Petersburg Sociological Institute of RAS, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Phd in Sociology - Specialist Researcher

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Published

2020-12-14

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 2 (2020)

Section

COVID-19 and Aging Bodies

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