Our Time Now

[...] , if it’s not a million miles away from your usual routine, you’re not on your own. A recent survey by health watchdog, NICE, discovered that for an increasing number of over-50s in the [...]

[...] in It’s Complicated (2009) – they often fall into the ‘oddball comedy’ category. A recent survey of over-65s by the Nominet Trust discovered that older people felt strongly that they [...]

[...] through their 20s and 30s variously acquiring jobs and babies before landing squarely in middle age – quite possibly with grandchildren in tow – at the ripe old age of 40. Things seem very [...]

[...] , it’s spoiling the contentment we all should be experiencing as we pass through middle age and into our later years. Perhaps it’s time as a society we started learning to [...]

[...] shown that dementia, heart disease, certain cancers and diabetes are strongly linked to our lifestyle choices. As we get older, the stark fact is that we need to take more exercise and cut back on [...]

[...] in Frome last month. Ben said, “I’ve been delighted by the support received from Frome residents and local businesses,  and the feedback from our dinner was very positive. “It’s [...]

[...] are routinely marketed with the promise of arrested youth and a more fulfilled life. Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz recently hit out at the shallowness of an industry that preys on our deepest [...]

[...] and shunned. Nip and tuck Cynical advertisers exploit this fear ruthlessly. A massive global anti-ageing industry has emerged with a single aim: to encourage people to see the ageing process as an [...]

[...] the dominant force, commercially, at any rate, heralded by a tidal wave of twenty-something tech entrepreneurs, music moguls and savvy celebrities. For every sage-like Warren Buffet, there’ [...]

[...] fund to look forward to, either. The net result of all this youth-worship is a corresponding trend towards age-avoidance. Fact is old people are invisible, which is why no-one wants to be one, and why [...]

In my youth, it seemed to me that you could put good money on anyone in a position of power, anywhere in the world, being male and over 50. Old men ru [...]