Sex, Death and Other Inspiring Stories - The Advantages of Age Handbook to Growing Older Funkily

RoseRouse, a journalist, and Suzanne Noble, a serial entrepreneur– createdAdvantages of Age out of a conversation in a hot tub in 2016. ‘We didn’t likehow we were being depicted in the media as we got older.’

Advantagesof Age is a social enterprise designed to passionately challenge the prevailingnegative stereotypes around ageing. No, we’re not all grandparents, some of usare over 50, single and childless. We don’t wish to be defined by the reductiveheadlines we see around us. We are writers, filmmakers, singers, pressofficers, death doulas, psychotherapists and so much more. We are not allretired. We surf, play tennis, lift weights. We have sex, we don’t have sex. Wehave partners, we don’t have partners. We’re an eclectic bunch.

Inthis collection of essays gathered from seven years of commissioning, AoAersshare their thoughts on life, love, sex, death, adventures on their terms,lockdown and everything in between. ‘We hope we’re doing our bit to re-defineand re-frame what getting old means.'