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I'm learning how to be old from my big sister Jill. She looks back on a joyful working life as a social worker. She has a great tip for making sense of your own career, and appreciating what you achieved.

Remember "Love in the Real World"? In this discussion, Rhonda Pritchard updates her famous and refreshingly realistic book after 30 years. Some elements change when you're older. Ohers matter even more.

Are you losing your balance as you get older? There's much you can do to help yourself keep moving confidently through life.

Jo Randerson's creative approach to life brings up key questions about aging. For example, as we age, do we get physically and emotionally softer or harder — or both? and how will we respond when someone tells us we have spilled food down our front?

Settle down and enjoy the wisdom and fun of my distinguished guest, Lois Daish, New Zealand cooking hero. We reflect on changes in our own cooking and eating since 1940. Spoiler: we both fart more in our 80s;

Rosie Gibson investigates sleep in older people, and the way normal sleep is treated as a measurable medical problem. We asked 40 people over 75 whether they think about sleep that way.

40 is a good time to improve your lifestyle. It pays off! For some, like my guest Simon Sweetman, it could be a matter of life or death.

In this podcast episode, Kate Camp and I go nitpicking, grumbling and raving on the general topic of old people reading books and old people in books. Listen if you might be old one day.

Learning How To Be Old returns to the air with a timely check-up. I want to be sure that I’m fit to podcast. Hugo, aged 13, tests me for my overdue Old Person Warrant of Fitness. Looking pretty good, though some criteria are dubious. I just need an oil and grease and a few tweaks […]

I started by naming a podcast, as you do. Some experts tell you not to overthink when naming a podcast. So instead, I underthought. “Learning How To Be Old” is a terrifying title. It drives people away in droves, screaming and blocking their ears. So, bad name for a podcast! (You would rather be dead […]