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Travels with Mala including a Tibetan Buddhist Hospice near Berlin

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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Advantages of Age Awards 2023 – why are they still so fucking needed?

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5 mn read Yes, we’re having an Awards Ceremony on Nov 23rd at Hoxton Hall and they will be fun, flamboyant and fierce. And there will be dancing to reggae and world music by two of our wonderful members who are both DJs, Becca Leathlean and Debbie Golt. Yes, these awards are to celebrate getting older with panache, […]

Rose Rouse

October 31, 2023October 29, 2023

Advantages of Age,Spirit

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Travels with Mala including a Tibetan Buddhist Hospice near Berlin

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