Tag: ageism

25 April 2019

Stephen Burke

The UK is among the world’s most age-segregated societies. Generations seldom mix outside of families. We’ve sorted ourselves into age silos, keeping young from middle and old, feeding suspicion and […]
21 March 2019

Jeanette Leardi

Reasons to be cheerful about global efforts to stamp out ageism across the generations on this week’s The Big Middle. Jeanette Leardi is a social gerontologist and a prolific writer […]
28 February 2019

Aubrey de Grey

My third and final guest from the recent Longevity Leaders conference in London is a superstar of the longevity space. Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey is – by many a […]
21 February 2019

Wilf Blackburn

This is the second episode from this month’s Longevity Leaders conference in London – the first of its kind. Think of the conference as the equivalent of the World Economic […]
7 February 2019

Elizabeth White

When my job disappeared in my 50s, I didn’t worry. I’d been a good saver, the future was exciting, unknown – let the next adventure begin. I hadn’t even heard […]
24 January 2019

Marci Alboher

“What if we looked at our ageing population not as a problem but as an army of experienced social problem solvers” That quotable quote is from my guest, author Marci […]
13 December 2018

Jonathan Rauch

Subscribers to The Big Middle will have heard just about every guest mention the U-curve of happiness. Along the life course, social and brain science shows the curve is happy-miserable-happy […]
29 November 2018

Nadia Tuma-Weldon

Changing mouldy mindsets is no small order in a world full of media messages that reinforce arbitrary judgements based solely on age. If you’re young, you’re this way, if you’re […]
26 October 2018

Thank you AGE Platform EU

Big thanks to Estelle and the team at the #Ageing Equal campaign of @Age-PlatformEU for the lovely write-up of the podcast. Great to be in such good company raising our […]
25 October 2018

John Tarnoff

Time was, as recently as 1900, you were a heartbeat away from your coffin if you were lucky to make it to 50. Now, even a rare, fantasy retirement on […]