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Advantages of Age Awards Ceremony 2023 – the back story!!

9 mn read Yes, the awards were a dazzling success, well a flamboyant, warm, celebratory gathering and gave Suzanne and I lots of joy and satisfaction. A dazzling success in our terms of reference rather than a corporate one. To see what giving appreciation and awards do for small pro-ageing charities or individuals who often feel alone in […]

Rose Rouse

December 5, 2023December 7, 2023

Advantages of Age,Age is No Barrier

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Travels with Mala including a Tibetan Buddhist Hospice near Berlin

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8 mn read Mala Brinsden I have always loved travelling. It runs in the family, I watched my older brother go on his adventures in the 60s to the US with his long hippy hair. He was even refused entry in some states and ended up having to buy a short wig. Then it was my older sister’s […]

Mala Brinsden

October 17, 2023November 27, 2023

Advantages of Age,Age is No Barrier,Journeys

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Retirement Rebel Siobhan sold her Flat and now Travels the UK in her Motorhome

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5 mn read Siobhan Daniels was shortlisted in the Advantages of Age Awards 2023 in the Non-Fiction with Pro-Ageing Message category for her book Retirement Rebel. Here she lets know about her big adventure. Following a 30-year career as a reporter, producer and presenter for the BBC, I retired, bought a motorhome and embarked on a solo trip […]

Siobhan Daniels

November 6, 2023November 27, 2023

Advantages of Age,Journeys

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Decluttering his Paintings for Charity – Ray Postill

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5 mn read Have you tackled ‘de-cluttering’ your life yet? It seems to be something many of us face up to in later life. Those precious mementoes from holidays with the dear departed that we’ve treasured for years in the hope of leaving as a legacy to a grateful offspring … suddenly don’t seem as desirable to the […]

Suzi Clark

November 28, 2023November 27, 2023

Advantages of Age,Age is No Barrier

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AofA People: Alex Rotas – photographer, speaker and writer.

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7 mn read Alex Rotas is a photographer, speaker and writer. She’s an activist on the active ageing front. She takes photographs of people in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond so that society can receive the idea that so much more is possible than the ageist media tropes allow for. Age I’m 74 Where do you […]

Advantages of Age

November 21, 2023November 19, 2023

Advantages of Age,People

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Four Poems by Wendy Klein

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3 mn read AofA has published several Wendy Klein poems because we love them so much. They are courageous, above all. As well as marvellously crafted. And now she has been shortlisted for our Poet Award. Widely published and winner of many prizes, 81-year-old Wendy Klein is a retired psychotherapist, born in New York and brought up in […]

Wendy Klein

November 14, 2023November 14, 2023

Advantages of Age,Poetry

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