No. 264 / February 1995

• Editor's letter
  
  
• Ageing with attitude
  The idea of ageing kicks into action a host of fears and prejudices. Nikki van der Gaag suggests some positive ways of facing the future in a world where more and more people are living longer.
  
  
• Over to you
  NI readers give their views on ageing.
  
  
• Vanishing cream for the mind
  Conspirators in a plot to elevate youth and denigrate age? Or victims of it? Jeremiah Creedon reports from the front-line of middle age.
  
  
• I would pick more daisies
  A poem by Don Herold
  
  
• Bosom of the family
  African families look after their old folk. Or do they? Elizabeth Obadina finds it’s not always possible…
  
  
• A RIPE OLD AGE – THE FACTS
  
  
• A crone’s progress
  Allegra Taylor goes in search of older women’s wisdom.
  
  
• Stranded in Hamburgerland
  Jeremy Seabrook reports from South-East Asia where elderly people struggle to be heard above the babble of consumer culture.
  
  
• Simply – twelve myths about ageing
  
  
• The remains of the feast
  The story of Ratna and her grandmother who wanted it all, by Gita Hariharan.
  
  
• Coming of age in Conchali
  Katrina Payne sees women in Chile refusing to take their advancing years lying down.
  
  

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• Letters
• Letter from Russia
• Update
• The NI Interview with Herbert de Souza
• Reviews: plus Otto Preminger classic
  

• Curiosities

• Endpiece by William Kelly and Patrick Kinsella

• Country profile: Laos

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