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With nearly a quarter of the population over sixty and life expectancy increasing, old age is on the agenda. This video resource examines our often contradictory attitudes to age and ageing. Questions and...
Joan M Erikson at age 92 describes her search for a better living situation for her frail husband and then poignantly recounts his subsequent death. She uses these experiences to suggest strategies to meet...
At age 90, Joan Erikson examines in a frank and personal manner the last stage of the life cycle. She and her husband Erik Erikson formulated their eight-stage life cycle theory during their middle years,...
Covers the 1986 season of the British Museum Excavation project at the 3000-year-old Bronze Age settlement of Runnymede Bridge and the subsequent laboratory work on the finds.
Age discrimination affects the aspirations of both young and old, and prevents organisations from reaping the benefits of an age-diverse workforce. Following the introduction of the Employment Equality (Age)...
Podcast. THINKING ALOUD is a BBC 4 radio discussion series first broadcast in 1998 and hosted by Laurie Taylor focusing on the latest social science research. In this edition Laurie Taylor talks to Lois Lee,...
Are we the ‘same’ person when we are young as when we are old? The programme uses interviews, film clips and newspaper extracts to explore the way biology, society and personal experience influence...
A video-based learning package intended to challenge ageist practice. Explores issues related to caring for older people and features older people themselves and those who work with them. Covers: aspects of...
Systematic examination of old age is a new field inspirecd by the unprecendented number of people living long enough to become elderly. Rigorous research on the part of the Berlin Group under Paul Baltes has...
With the help of private funding and research into a rare disorder - progeria, or premature ageing - geneticists believe they have found the biogical clock - a repeating DNA sequence - that determines when...
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