Joyce Williams: A Positive Perspective on Ageing What have we done to the word “OLD”? What is going on that we have let ourselves hear someone else’s view of our lives?  Others say that getting...

‘The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.’ So goes the famous quote from The Go-Between. Life before COVID-19 seems like a very different place to the world we now live in....

We’re all getting older, so why is it that when you pass a certain age bracket it’s OK to be insulted? Why is the language of ageing so ageist? ‘Codger’, ‘old fogey’, ‘biddy’,...

We talk about intergenerational environments as being one of the key ways that we can create socially-inclusive communities and combat loneliness. But how can we connect older to younger people in the...

Our fashion industry is ageist.  In the next 50 years, there is projected to be an additional 8.2 million people aged 65 years and over in the UK – a population roughly the size of present-day London....

Not only is the UK’s population ageing, but the gap between younger and older generations is becoming increasingly divided. What was once the norm in society for generations to be intermixed has...