By HLTD51 student Teaformeplease Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease often associated with older age. Its symptoms are usually described as debilitating given their impact on cognitive status and ability: memory loss, inability to communicate, and behaviour change. Although one may have an idea of what dementia may look like, it is often impossible for… Read More
Podcast by HLTD51 student Teaformeplease In this podcast, I examine how Philip Larkin’s poem The Old Fools (read or listen) critiques the concept of age and aging as decline. Despite the pessimism of its opening stanza, Larkin’s poem ultimately persuades us to think of aging along the lines of what age critics like Mary Russo call… Read More
By HLTD51 student KAKhalfan The poet Dylan Thomas once said, ‘Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever… Read More
By HLTD51 student Teaformeplease Western society regularly views becoming old as a disease or an illness that needs to be prevented or cured. This tendency is seen everywhere, especially with advertisements that promote “cosmeceutical” products like “anti aging” creams that magically turn “old” wrinkly faces into young smooth ones, or through exercising and dieting that… Read More