Exploring the rewards and challenges surrounding later life
We often have unexamined views and opinions about getting older that have been absorbed from society, our families, teachers and peers. The media, entertainment and business are, to a large extent, age-phobic. Yet things are changing, many older people are no longer prepared to sit on the settee and watch TV for 20-30 years. There is so much we elders can be doing for ourselves, for our communities and for the planet.
We are often encouraged to "let it go"
sometimes that is just too hard.
But maybe it is possible put it down for a while
and then perhaps one day we will let it go.
News
July 25th
The Guardian: "A new start after 60: ‘I didn’t want to be an invisible old lady – so I became a yoga teacher’"
The Guardian: "Britain’s ‘great unretirement’: cost of living drives older people back to work"
July 17th
The Guardian: Joan Bakewell at 89, "“I don’t think for a moment that life has got duller as I’ve got older. Less thrilling perhaps. But I find it all absorbing in a different kind of way.”"
Next Avenue: "The Future of Aging Is Intergenerational"
The Centre for Ageing Better: “Michael, aged 54, writes about his experiences of being an older LGBT+ person and how we should remove barriers so that we can all age equally."
July 4th
The Guardian: "A new start after 60: ‘I lost my ability to speak – and became a film-maker’"
July 3rd
The Guardian: "welcome to ageing Britain, where pensioners outnumber children"
The centre for Ageing Better: "As a result of increasing the state pension age (SPA) from 65 to 66 the income poverty rate of single people aged 65 rose from 16% to 38%"
April 10th
The Guardian: "Midlife cognitive training could improve balance in later life"
March 24th
The Centre for Better Ageing: "Confronting ageism, one bucket list adventure at a time"
March 22nd
Gallery updates March, Dartington and Totnes.
March 21st
The Guardian: "‘I became a performance poet at 62 – and finally I have a sense of who I am’"
March 12th
Agile Ageing Alliance: "CULTIVATING NEIGHBOURHOODS THAT CARE"
March 9th
The Guardian: "The joy of lovemaking in your 70s"
March 3rd
The Guardian: "NHS ‘woefully unprepared’ for care of an ageing England"
February 28th
The Guardian: "Bob and Ann Paton thought they were just moving to their dream country home – until they had the idea to turn its six acres into a small farm."
The Guardian: "All you need to do – from writing a will to inheritance tax and insurance"
February 23rd
The Guardian: "China’s dating shows for over-65s challenge taboos about older people and sex"
February 15th
The Voice Box: "Awaken Your Voice: Set amidst the wooded mountains and hidden coves of the Pelion, the perfect place to relax and enjoy a peaceful break whilst exploring the creative potential of your Voice."
The Guardian: "Twenty minutes of daily exercise may cut heart disease risk in over-70s"
February 9th
Radically Reframing Ageing: "Changing the Way We Age … and the Way We Talk about Aging"
February 7th
Gallery updates February at Dartington.
The Guardian: ‘I’m one of the world’s worst athletes – but I learned to skate in my 70s’
February 6th
Ageing Equal: "Celebrating ageing with anti ageist birthday cards!"
January 18th
Gallery updates January at Dartington.
January 17th
CharityComs: "the way we talk about growing old and ageing is often negative and based on lazy and outdated stereotypes."
New York Times: "The Joys (and challenges) of sex after 70"
December 16th, 2021
The Guardian: "With life expectancy creeping towards 100 and pensions failing to compensate, we are heading for a new era in the workplace."
December 9th
The Centre for Ageing Better: "The State of Ageing in Leeds: What life is like for people aged 50 and over in Leeds"
The Guardian: "Saga, the travel and insurance company for the over-50s, is to give employees a week of paid leave to celebrate the birth of a grandchild."
December 7th
Gallery updates December at Dartington.
December 6th
The Guardian: "A new start after 60: ‘I was done. Burnt out. Then I moved into a motorhome and found freedom’"
December 5th
The Guardian: "We’re in our 70s and he’s perfect – except he doesn’t want sex…"
November 29th
The Guardian: "Moreno is a couple of weeks short of her 90th birthday, but look at her and you would knock off 20 years. Listen to her and you would knock off another 50."
November 28th
New article: How come you are so alive?
November 23rd
BMJ Open: Housework is good for you!
The Register: IBM researcher suing for age discrimination
November 20th
The Guardian: "A trip to Switzerland in search of a good death: ‘All this instead of just doing it in Brighton’"
November 14th
The Guardian: "the enforced extension of UK working lives has been accompanied not only by flourishing ageism, but by the related and somehow more respectable generationalism"
November 10th
Gallery updates Autumn at Dartington.
November 7th
The Guardian:"Instead of investing to cheat death, we should be trying to make old age livable and dignified for all"
The Centre for Ageing Better:"Older and Greener - a campaign to highlight the important contribution older people make to tackling climate change."
October 17th
The Guardian:Billy Connelly at 78
The Centre for Ageing Better:"Healthy Ageing 2021 Conference: Mon 15 & Tue 16 Nov, 9am-1.30pm"
The Centre for Ageing Better:"Exploring the barriers and enablers to active travel among 50-70 year olds"
The Guardian:"If I don’t stay active, I’ll fossilise"
October 1st
The Guardian:"‘I started sketching at 72 – and graduated with a fine art degree at 96’"
September 26th
The Guardian: Marina Abramović, "74, talks about embracing mortality, her purely emotional art, spirituality and communism, and sex getting better after the menopause"
September 25th
The Healthy Aging Project: "The Healthy Aging project investigates the influence of an early aging immune system and its effects on chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and COPD. Hence we aim at investigating the effect of nutraceuticals on this aging process."
September 23rd
Blog After Dinner
September 17th
The Guardian: "I’m an old guy! Once you are in your 70s, 70 is not the new 30. You’re 70! I feel totally comfortable about it.”"
September 16th
The Centre for Ageing Better: "The report also shows that over 55s are more likely to live in poor-quality housing, as are those most vulnerable to COVID-19 – such as people with health conditions or from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds."
The Guardian: "Life expectancy in England falls to lowest level since 2011"
September 6th
Blog The trees let go.
September 5th
Gallery Autumn approaches along the River Dart at Dartington.
September 3rd
The Centre for Ageing Better Reframing ageing: Public perceptions of ageing, older age and demographic change
The Guardian A New Start After 60: "‘Exercise is my lifeblood – so I decided to run my first marathon at 74’"
Aug 27th
The Guardian A New Start After 60: "I’m a big fan of old age. I think everybody should experience it."
Aug 26th
The Centre for Ageing Better "The Good Home Inquiry: How to get the homes we want"
Aug 23rd
Gallery OnePictures for July and August, 2021
Age UK "Given that we are generally living a lot longer than we used to, the chances are that many of us are going to be ‘older’ for a considerable length of time, so we might as well make the most of it and do it as well as we possibly can."
Aug 12th
The Centre for Ageing Better "Traffic, poor driver behaviour and a lack of confidence mean that too many people are just too afraid to engage in active travel, particularly cycling."
Aug 8th
The Guardian "Books, clean air and socialising thought to have helped the latest five mark their 100th birthdays in Perdasdefogu this year."
Aug 5th
The Centre for Ageing Better "Walking and cycling ‘not safe or attractive enough’ for many in their 50s and 60s."
Aug 4th
The Guardian "A recently published study has found that body satisfaction increases with age."
Awakening the Sage Within
A workshop from Sageing International
This workshop is aimed at elders, those approaching elderhood, people working with elders and anyone wishing to explore the second half of life. As evolving elders how might we foster wisdom, hope and resilience in the light of the difficult challenges that come with being human? How might we bring joy to ourselves and others. We can learn to tap into the perspective that our decades of life offer. We can turn our experience into wisdom and our wisdom into compassion for ourselves, our communities and this beautiful earth that sustains us.
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