The Age-Well Project

WHY WE NEED SILENCE TO AGE WELL

As I write this I can hear a pneumatic drill, the drone of overhead aircraft, a neighbour’s dog barking and the thrum of streaming traffic from a nearby road. And that’s just from outside my house. Inside, my washing machine is bleeping (why do all white goods now come with noisy alerts?), a bathroom fan...

A new puppy and a new recipe

Meet Monty, the newest Age-Well Project dog. This little pup has taken over my life this week, so this blog post will be short and sweet. We’ve blogged before about the Age-Well benefits of dog ownership, and devoted a chapter in our book to the subject. Of course, dogs mean walks, and daily walking is...

WISDOM, WONDER AND THE POWER OF WORK

Once upon a time there was an extraordinary musician called Pablo Casals. Pablo, a Spanish Catalan by birth, was a few weeks shy of his 97th birthday when he died in 1973. Still revered by many as one of the greatest cellists ever, Pablo dedicated his life to his two passions: music and justice. Whenever...

HOW I SOLVED MY SLEEP PROBLEMS

How do you sleep? Annabel and I compare our nightly tallies: obsessively texting each other, ‘I got seven hours!’, ‘I lay awake all night’, ‘I woke up at 5am’. You get the picture. Sleep has become a midlife obsession for us, and we’re not alone. 80% of Brits suffer from lack of sleep, which costs...

AIR PURIFIERS AND THE PERFECT SAUCE TO PEP UP STEAMED GREENS

We’ve been promising to write about air purifiers for a few months. Thank you to the readers who reminded us to get on with it! As it happens, our timing is good: experts have just called for air purifiers to be installed into the schools most affected by air pollution. And because green veggies have...