This chapter considers the various ways in which ageing and older people were positioned during the pandemic. Through a careful reading first of the representation of older people in Sarah Moss’s The Fell (2021), then of attempts to document and record the empirical experiences of older people during the pandemic in Tessa Hadley’s short story ‘Coda’ (2023) and Tim Parks’s novel Hotel Milano (2023), and finally through a consideration of how being cut off from their ageing parents and grandparents intensified anxieties for generations of people ostensibly in their prime in Tanika Gupta’s play A Tupperware of Ashes (2024), it draws attention to the fact that the isolation of older people during the pandemic represents a continuation of the basic social structure and accompanying underlying assumptions about age and ageing that were already in place before the pandemic.