50 is the new normal
I turned fifty a couple of months ago. I had a great party and wasn’t immediately bombarded by Saga adverts for cruises on Facebook as friends had warned. Maybe it’s because I work at the Centre for A ...
Tag Archives: ageism
Growing age apartheid in Brexit Britain
‘A Country for All Ages’ report promotes greater integration between older and younger people, with ideas for action from a wide range of national and local organisations. Urgent action is needed to e ...
Call for older models to show reality?
The article on gerascophobia in your last edition, triggered by comments from Jeremy Paxman, really hit the nail on the head. I’d like to raise something that continually irritates me – wh ...
The new age of ageing
Gerascophobia is the fear of getting old, classically demonstrated by Jeremy Paxman in his financial Times diary (19th August 2016). His fear of being ‘on the verge of incontinence and idiocy’, at age ...