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By Geraldine Bedell on 29 June, 2010
‘I haven’t had such a good time in my life…ever, I think.’ Linda Merron, who was 60 in March, suffers from ME, heart disease and Crohn’s fibromyalgia. When her 24 year-old daughter Rosie moved away last year, taking her social life (which was also Linda’s social life) with her, she started to worry about loneliness [...]
Posted in Blog, Health & Social Care | Tagged Carmen Hortal, Daniel Dickens, David Cameron, Department of Work and Pensions, Hammersmith and Fulham, handyperson, Linda Merron, Marc Freedman, National Film Theatre, Participle, pensioners, public services, Sky, social care, social network, Southwark Circle, Southwark Council, Suffolk, Third Age |
By Geraldine Bedell on 22 June, 2010
Angelo Marcellini is 75 and lives in sheltered housing in London. When he’s in the lift, his fellow residents won’t join him. If he comes in, they leave. Only two of the households on his floor speak to him. Angelo is gay. The managers of his sheltered housing are evangelical Christians and they won’t help [...]
Posted in Blog, Culture, News, Politics | Tagged Age Concern, bereavement, Camden, care homes, City of London, civil partnerships, gay men, Graham Norton, grandparents, Hackney, HIV/Aids, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, lesbians, LGBT, Opening Doors, pensioners, prejudice, Section 28, sheltered housing, Westminster |
By Geraldine Bedell on 9 June, 2010
‘Older people’, the subject matter of this website, has a euphemistic ring. It sounds weaselly. Older than what, or whom? Babies? Toddlers? Teenagers? It’s a phrase that reminds me of the old Jonathan Miller joke: ‘In fact, I’m not really a Jew. Just Jew-ish.’ It prevaricates and quibbles and refuses to come out and say [...]
Posted in Blog, Culture | Tagged A Fresh Map of Life: The Emergence of the Third Age, Abigail Trafford Walsh, Boomers, centenarians, elder care, elderly, elders, Encore, Eric Midwinter, Fourth Age, Gene Cohen, Geoff Oliver, George Washington University, golden years, Jonathan Miller, London marathon, Marc Freedman, Michael Young, Ms magazine, Old, old people, older people, Oxford Institute of Ageing, pensioners, Peter Laslett, Phyllis Moen, Prime Time, retirement, Seniors, Suzanne Braun Levine, the Guardian, The Making of An Elder Culture, Theodore Roszak, Third Age, U3A, Université de la Troisième Age, University of Minnesota, Washington Post |