ABSTRACT
This article offers an opinion piece that explores attitudes towards ageing and the elderly from a younger person’s perspective. Drawing on personal experience and ideas of the progression ageing brings, it proposes a concept of mental ageing as comprising development, refinement and decay. These are illustrated through evaluation of attitudes towards ageing, loss and respect along with a look at how they affect values, change fears and shape perceptions.
Notes on contributor
Patrick Body is currently a gap year student, and at the time of submission was living in New Zealand where he held a temporary position as Programme Administrator in the Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology. He is currently awaiting the start of his Master’s degree, commencing in September of this year, studying an MSc in Sustainability with a focus on Corporate Social Responsibility; he is aiming to further his knowledge and commence a career in corporate accountability.