Tag: ageism
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Poet Donna Ashworth
It’s as if she’s got a hotline to your head. She gets inside your mind, rummages round all those piles of messy-feely thoughts, even the ones in the darkest corners, […]
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Jeremy King [REPLAY+]
The pandemic has hammered the job prospects of older workers. We got a measure of how hard in the latest from the UK’s official recordkeeper, the Office for National Statistics. Vacancies […]
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Demographic inflection point? The Big Middle’s core theme explored anew
Still croaky from apparently not COVID but a beast of a cold/flu combo I picked up in France; where better huh? We’re all in virus-avoidance mode, still, so I can […]
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Perspectives on resilience + finding joy from three postmenopausal widows
I had to scale back my intentions with this one. I wanted to bring you the testimonies of at least a dozen post-60s women. But I wasn’t prepared for the […]
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Drs Jen + David Unwin
This one’s a blend of three core strands of The Big Middle: living healthier for longer, the disconnect between chronological and biological age, and the midlife transition. In this case, […]
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Georgie Lee + Colum Lowe
We know the global population is rapidly ageing. We know longevity scientists are busy developing restorative treatments as they redefine ageing as a disease. It’s that medical model of steady […]
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Kyrié Carpenter + Ryan Backer
It’s often said ageism is the last socially-sanctioned prejudice. Our failure to confront it and make it as unacceptable as racism, sexism and ableism sets us up for our own […]
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Kerry Hannon
We are talking work this time – the now, how, why and even the what-to-wear of it through the murky lens of COVID. “None of us know where it’s headed; […]
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Stuart Lewis
The future of work this time – that’s the thread I’m pulling from the jaws of what’s increasingly looking like a global depression in my ongoing series The Post-COVID Future […]
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Louise Aronson
Anyone with even a passing interest in longevity, the healthcare crisis, and the cultural context of ageing has heard of my guest, American geriatrician Louise Aronson. Her groundbreaking book Elderhood: […]
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Dr Fayne Frey
We talk ageism in the Skincare Industrial Complex this time out on the podcast, my 100% free-range collection of what interests me and hopefully you too about how we’re living […]
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Kelea
Got a favourite song about ageing? The pop culture universe is well stocked with beautiful songs about traversing the life course. I find it impossible to choose between Frank Sinatra’s […]
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