The Curfew for Elderly During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Different Perspectives, Different Horizons

The aim of this paper is to display different perspectives and different horizons both younger and older people have in terms of curfew for elderly. These measures have been implemented as a mechanism to control the spread of COVID-19. The pandemic caused not only a community health crisis, but also a social crisis due to the restrictions including social distancing for all people and more importantly curfew for the older people. Since the curfew is limited to people over a certain age, it became an issue of intersection of ageist and anti-ageist discourses. By drawing upon Hans-Georg Gadamer’s theory of “fusion of horizons”, this paper is an attempt to interpret older people’s curfew from two distinct horizons, those of ageist and and anti-ageist.