Table 3.

Media’s portrayal of older people’s response to the pandemic in the examined news articles (N = 568)

	Subcategory				No. of news articles	Percentage (%)a
As support recipients (n = 306, 53.9%)	From whom?	Government at all levels			85	15.0
		Public institutions and NGOs			219	38.6
		Immediate family members			69	12.1
		Kin, friends, neighbours, etc			23	4.05
	What types of support?	Instrumental support (financial, goods, services, etc.)			284	50.0
		Emotional care (affection from others, sharing feelings, etc.)			140	24.6
		Informational support (knowledge or advice)			98	17.3
As support providers (n = 58, 10.2%)	What types of support?	Instrumental support (financial, goods, services, etc.)			44	7.7
		Emotional care (affection from others, sharing feelings, etc.)			18	3.2
		Informational support (knowledge or advice)			11	1.9
As potential victims (n = 235, 41.4%)

^aThe percentage of each category might add up to over 100%, as we adopted a nonexclusive coding strategy that allowed each news article to be coded into multiple categories. For example, a news article might write about both support recipients and providers among older people