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Griffith Review 68: <br>Getting On

Griffith Review 68:
Getting On

In a world where seventy is the new fifty, what do we do to age well?

Griffith Review 68: Getting On probes what ageing means – individually, socially and existentially.

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Ashton Applewhite:<br>The truth about growing older

Ashton Applewhite:
The truth about growing older

Age is the universal human experience, and ageism is the form of discrimination we all experience.

In this online exclusive for Griffith Review 68: Getting On, anti-ageing activist Ashton Applewhite discusses with Marlene Krasovitsky the reasons why ageism is so pernicious, yet offers the potential to unite everyone across the age barrier.

Read their wide-ranging conversation in full here.

 

Through the Window: <br>A new normal in Italy?

Through the Window:
A new normal in Italy?

There were reports that those who had not survived, mainly in northern Italy cities, were driven in army trucks at night to open graves far distant. 

In the latest of our pieces examining life in the shadow of COVID-19, Desmond O'Grady reports on life under lockdown in the Italian capital of Rome.

Read the piece in full here.

 

 

Griffith Review 68: Getting On –<br> National online launch!

Griffith Review 68: Getting On –
National online launch!

Join contributors Charlotte Wood, Tony Birch and Vicki Laveau-Harvie, along with editor Ashley Hay, for the launch of Griffith Review 68: Getting On.

This compelling exploration of the meaning of getting older asks the fundamental question: what does the world mean when seventy is the new fifty?

Further details available here.

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    By Desmond O'Grady
    In Rome, at first, aspects of the lockdown were pleasant: the silence of sparse c...
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    By Meryl Broughton
    THE TALE OF a life doesn’t always start at the beginning, and sometimes it has to venture beyond the end. In between is a lot of awkwardness about changing physicality and impending mortality. Such ideas wafted around in the back of my mind in t...
  • The delicate pleasure
    By Jennifer Menzies
    Reconstitution of the past is a delicate pleasure of which one should not be deprived. – Elizabeth David, French Provincial Cooking (Michael Joseph, 1960)   ‘NOW IN OUR early sixties, it is more nostalgia than new e...

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Getting On
EDITION 68
Getting On
In a world where seventy is the new fifty, old age isn't what it used to be. How do we age successfully – as individuals, as a society and as a population?

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