Seven years ago, I was in a hot tub with a group of friends who were sick of being depicted as worn out, unsexy and uninteresting. One of them, Suzanne Noble, a serial entrepreneur and jazz singer, and I, a journalist and poet, decided to create Advantages of Age – a social enterprise which challenges the accepted narratives around ageing.
Since then, Advantages of Age has become a website, a very lively FB group, has made films about death and dying as well as staging dance performances with a group of over-60s and other events from poetry evenings to awards ceremonies celebrating people and organisations doing crucial pro-ageing work.
Early on, we did an interview from the hot tub in Suzanne’s garden for The Sunday Times magazine Style and they…