Book Club - Engaging with Ageing with Anne Ring

It’s time to rethink ageing.

Our bodies are a wonderful time machine, propelling our selves through our ages as we gather experiences, knowledge and wear and tear.

I am on a crusade to destigmatise the word 'old'.

I am on a crusade to destigmatise the word 'old'.

I am working against the power of commercial forces that benefit from the promotion of 'anti-ageing' by feeding off fears of ageing and the desire to look young, turn back the clock and remain ageless.

And I’m also waging war on the automatic assumption that staying young can be considered a compliment to we oldsters.  “It keeps them young.” No! We keep on enjoying life, making the most of it, and savouring the later stages as much as those that have gone before. Why equate all of that with youth, as if that is some sort of virtue?