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Catharine Coleborne, Professor of History, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle

How to Dress for Old Age offers personal reflections and important lessons for facing life’s last act

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Once we enter midlife, it seems everywhere we look there are signs pointing to the future. Advice about retirement strategies, property and housing, superannuation (if we’re lucky enough to have it), how to age well, be healthy, adjust to life’s “third act”.

But we less frequently reflect on the emotional and spiritual aspects of ageing, or watching our parents age and become dependent on us and on carers.

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