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# Ageing

This year
2024
Doctor: How to live longer and help the planet at the same time
Dr Lisa McNamee
Niamh O’Reilly: I beg you, stop marketing the menopause to me
Niamh O'Reilly
Last year
2023
Analysis: Our new figures show we now need a national conversation about home care
Joseph Musgrave
Analysis: Older people are vulnerable to poverty - more should have been done for them
Mary Murphy
All time
Justine Bateman: 'Men’s older faces have always signified power, but for women that means a loss of power'
Justine Bateman
Germany legend 'slowly passing to the afterlife'
Opinion: Clifden opened wounds, but we must resist the urge to lock down Irish life entirely
Professor Rónán Collins
Opinion: What can we learn from the Irish people who live to be 100?
Alison Fagan
Left to die at the side of a road - south east Asian country's ageing population leads to humanitarian crisis
Dublin adults over 10 times more likely to rely on public transport than those in rural areas
Elderly South Korean cheerleaders offer glimpse of world's longest-living women
Kate Beaufoy: 'Who cares about the carers? I was a fit fifty when I took on a job of care. I nearly cracked up'
Kate Beaufoy
'When I came in here I couldn't walk. Now I've just been told I can go home'
Four-year-old boy being treated for mysterious ageing disease
Men's health: Feel a mid-life crisis coming on? It's time for an action plan
Karl Melvin
28 signs you're definitely past your early 20s
Think the health service is bad now? Doctors say it's going to get worse
Gossip websites tried to say Meg Ryan looked 'unrecognisable' and nobody is having it
It's official: I've found my first grey hair... The inevitable is happening.
Christine Allen
What has it really been like for older people during austerity?
Kieran Walsh
These Irish kids' definitions of 'old' will depress you
Opinion: Age-ing or Sage-ing? It's time to focus on the positive aspects of getting older
Maeve Halpin
Opinion: Losing a parent to dementia requires a unique form of emotional stamina
Claire Micks
Opinion: Ageism is far too prevalent, we need a cultural shift in how older people are perceived
Lianne Murphy
Poll: Have you discussed your final wishes with your family?
Opinion: We have made no preparations for our ageing population
Tadhg Daly
80% of Irish over 50s are overweight
Opinion: Older people and Gaeilgeoirí are right to be indignant – this Cabinet doesn't care about them
Peter Kavanagh
Opinion: Would you know if an older relative, friend or neighbour was being abused?
Eamon Timmins
Opinion: How we deal with illness and ageing is painfully outdated
Robert Grant
Column: Let's change the language we use about older age
Professor Thomas Scharf
Three-year-old finds out she's going to be four... and is totally devastated
'Not enough nursing home beds to meet demand and it's only going to get worse'
The 'sandwich generation': Large number of women supporting their adult children and elderly parents
Ireland is the 12th best place in the world in which to grow old
Want to have your say about growing old in Ireland?
How lifestyle changes can reverse ageing
Mental performance of people aged in their nineties 'improving'
Column: We need to make our society and cities age-friendly
Michael Hodin
New EU-funded device detects when a pensioner has a bad fall