Adult education in the UK – can gerontology keep up?
A serious discussion has started about adult education. No-one looking at the membership of the new Adult Education Commission can …
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Active minds with nowhere to go? Getting the BSG Special Interest Group on Educational Gerontology off the ground in Manchester
Caroline Holland reports from the event at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School on Tuesday July 3rd 2018 The public event …
Educational gerontology – still a good idea?
In their conclusion to ‘The social policy of old age: Moving into the 21st century’, published twenty years ago, Mim …
Age-friendly? Hard times crossing the stressful streets
At the end of last year there was a brief exchange on Twitter between Charles Musselwhite and Libby Webb. The …
Camden Intergenerational Week 2017
Next week, from October 14th in fact, is Camden Intergenerational Week, the third bi-annual celebration since Vanda Carter, formerly the …
Dramatising the care home – rebellion or reenchantment?
The Lounge, which has been playing at London’s Soho Theatre, draws on two models of plot derived from the quest …
In memory of Tony Carter
The late Tony Carter – whose funeral took place today in south London – and I never really got on. …
‘From footcare to walking bench to bench’: 30 years of environmental campaigning updated in the new report from KOVE – Kilburn Older Voices Exchange in London, UK
In a new report* for KOVE, part literature review and part exposition of its recent work, I link its programmes …
Housing for all? Where – and how – do older people fit in strategically?
Reviewing a new book on art in Britain in the 18th century John Barrell suggests that ‘polite conversation, far from …
Growing up, growing old
In her recent book ‘Why Grow Up?’ (Penguin, 2014) American philosopher Susan Neiman combines a defence of the Enlightenment with …
