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Ageing

March 2026

  • Emma Beddington

    Positive thinking helps you age better? That’s the worst thing I’ve heard all month

    Emma Beddington
  • An illustration of people running towards a bushland creek

    Letter from ...
    The waterhole: we’ve been coming here for 30 years. Like the creek, we’ve been rearranged – ravaged by time but still shining

    Jessie Cole
  • Print showing George Washington on his deathbed in 1799 surrounded by family and friends at his Mount Vernon plantation home

    In defence of dropping dead: the burden of extended care for aged parents is a heavy new phenomenon

    Lucinda Holdforth
  • Portrait of elderly woman.Unrecognizable female expressing care towards an elderly lady, brushing her hair with a comb. Granddaughter helping granny with a haircut. Family values concept. lose up, copy space, background.

    When family ties become a dreadful burden

  • Expecting to live past 100? Then this show, with its rotten fruit and robot companions, is for you

  • Three times on one bus ride I was offered a seat. But I refuse to ‘let the old man in’

    Paul Daley

  • Dodging the ‘wrinkle wagon’: why a Brazilian film about ageing is inspiring older women

  • ‘You lose yourself’: inside the mental health crisis hitting gen X women

  • The impossible task of caring for ageing parents who did not care for you: ‘There’s a lot of reliving old triggers’

  • Generational divide isn’t as wide as you think

  • Pass notes
    Now we have proof: dealing with difficult people really does age you

  • The decline in healthy life expectancy in Britain should shock us all

February 2026

  • Devi Sridhar

    I’ve seen some bizarre exercises online. If I were an influencer, this is the one workout I’d recommend

    Devi Sridhar
  • Zoe Williams

    Why are my friends so opinionated about reading glasses? I blame denial

    Zoe Williams
  • Alison Taylor and her parents, sitting at a table having breakfast

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: my parents sold my childhood home – and my creeping panic came to an end

  • An illustration of an eye, with two people embracing in the pupil, surrounded by falling money

    The Age of Inheritance
    ‘The whole family is destroyed’: Australia’s inheritance disputes aren’t just increasing – they’re becoming messier

  • I took up paddleboarding in my 60s. Now I feel calm in the water and strong on land

  • The troubling rise of longevity fixation syndrome: ‘I was crushed by the pressure I put on myself’

  • ‘People hit their primes at different times of life’: the pair of late bloomers trying to rewrite the script for ageing

  • Age brings an opportunity to escape the clutches of unattainable beauty standards – it’s liberating

    Zoya Patel
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