Mike first went to sea with his dad when he was three years old. He remembers getting seasick a lot in those early years. Nearly 70 years on he’s now used to it. The aquatic blood runs in the family....

Tony was quietly requested to mime, rather than sing, in the school choir so that his questionable singing voice wouldn’t ruin the overall sound.  Piano lessons only lasted three weeks before he threw...

Klauss says with calm certainty, “Age is in the head.  You don’t want to let it hold you back”.  A sentiment that saw him get back into serious competitive rowing following a fifty-year break from...

Margaret’s father died of a brain tumour when she was just 14 months old, a fact that has shaped her attitude to life and death. She recalls being told that her dad had had a bad headache and the doctors...

Dubbed ‘The Rockstar of Physics’, Basil Hiley is a man discovering more in his 80s than many of us will in our entire lifetimes. It’s easy to lose count of the times Basil says “I’ve been very...

At the age of six Hanja became a refugee as she fled on a boat from World-War-II torn Croatia (then Yugoslavia) to start a new life in Italy. Aged 11 she was moved to apartheid South Africa where she met...

We are really excited to share with you all our first STOPageism partner-led campaign. Through Their Time, Laura Page, Photographer and Rebecca Vassie Memorial award winner, has captured the lives of older...

Tales of Transition – Changing negative attitudes toward ageing. Christopher Tovey became a self-funded full-time post-graduate research student at the age of 70 and has continued with his work as...

Photo of Anti-Ageist Birthday Cards by Changing the Narrative CO By Dave Martin from The Centre for Policy on Ageing Serendipitously last year there were several anti-ageist birthday cards campaigns in...

STOPageism Supports New WHO Ageism Campaign. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced the launch of its new Decade of Healthy Ageing initiative today, Thursday 18th March, following the release...

We need to talk about language. So, let’s talk about our generations. I’m an architect not a linguistic expert, but as an architect I was taught to recognise how signs and symbols gain cultural...

When the first national Intergenerational Week was planned for March 2020, we were on the crest of a massive wave with thousands of intergenerational projects taking place across the UK. Of course we all...