Gentle jest at unconscious ageism

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Gentle jest at unconscious ageism

Greg Judkins
Older people CR Jacoblund on iStock
No one says ‘congratulations, when is it due?’ when people enter old age [image: Jacoblund on iStock]

A New Zealand poem catches Greg Judkins’ eye in the final part this year of his series on poetry and medicine

Getting old is not like getting pregnant, New Zealand writer and poet Rachel McAlpine recently celebrated her 80th birthday by publishing a book of poems, How to be Old. Here’s one of my favou