In a world where where seventy is the new fifty, old age isn’t what it used to be.

Griffith Review 68: Getting On, edited by Ashley Hay, takes a wide-ranging look at the worldwide phenomena of increasing longevity. With contributions from Helen Garner, Tony Birch, Charlotte Wood, Andrew Stafford, Sarah Holland-Batt, Vicki Laveau-Harvey and David Sinclair, among many others, the collection considers how to age well, what issues will come to dominate the national conversation when an increasing proportion of the population is over sixty-five, and what might the growing population of elders contribute to society as whole?