Museums Waking Up to the value of their 70+ Market? They should!
The Future is not just about a Museum being Friendly to older people, but working with them as valuable and essential partners.
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Swimming at 83? Yes! Pools Age Friendly? No!
Most pools certainly do not look as if the designers tested them on our age group! And certainly haven’t thought through what the ageing population would benefit from.
Disability Adaptations? In my house? No!
Why isnt it seen as ordinary to have a grab bar in a shower?. Shouldn’t we assume it normal and sensible for there to be one? Could we provoke a feeling that hotels and people who don’t have one are being rather silly?
Excited About The Future? At 83!
What is the future for us, for people? Did the Climate change? Did we solve the plastic problem, get to sustainable energy, accept driverless cars?
Did we turn into AI /computers/people?
At 80+ Narrowing Horizons? Or Change of Focus?
One of the many delightful surprises in this Strange Land of Old Age, has been this calm acceptance, this adjustment to later life. The change in the focus of pleasures that one cannot imagine at all when you are younger.
Curiosity about Clydebank : Cunard, Singers and the Blitz.
Love that in my lifetime I have seen the great industrial cities of the UK at their most productive but dirty stage. Saw them collapse and suffer and am now seeing them rebuilding and seriously re greening themselves: Sheffield, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow… And proud of it too. They are amazing places.
“You are Old Grandma Williams” the Young One said…
‘You are old Grandma Williams,’ the young one said,
‘But your hair has not yet gone white
and yet you repeatedly stay in your bed.
Do you think at your age that is right?’