The general public think that the average age someone stops being seen as a desirable candidate for employers to hire is 55 - a full 11 years before state pension age. More than one in three people (36%) think that job applicants stop being seen as a desirable candidate for employers at 50 or younger - including one in 12 (8%) who think that 40 is the cut-off point.
When she hired a resume consultant for advice on getting her applications noticed, she expected she'd get formatting hacks or a crash course in keywords. Instead, the expert told Lily to scrub all but the last decade from her CV and LinkedIn page, effectively erasing more than half of her 25-year career history and her college graduation date. It was less about streamlining her qualifications than lying by omission.
Then the pandemic happened and I did what everybody did: I let my hair go gray. It was a big scary thing, but I was so proud to have done the work - not the hair maintenance work - but the actual self-work to be brave enough to do it. I thought when I had to go back in public again, I would go to the hairdresser and get it done. But I loved the way it looked, so I just let it go.
Movies too have long exploited the idea, most notably in the 1960s and '70s, when a subgenre known as hagsploitation (aka "psycho biddy" horror) breathed new life into the careers of several classic Hollywood stars. Actresses like Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Shelley Winters were no longer being offered conventional leading roles. Instead, horror directors began casting them as villains (and occasionally victims), in stories about toxic family relationships and campy crimes of passion.
Ann Hummond knew the office software like the back of her hand. Based in Yorkshire, England, she could untangle any spreadsheet snafu in her sleep. Over the past 23 years, she had worked her way up from a data entry clerk to her finance company's administrative director, quietly becoming the person everyone relied on when things went sideways. She was, in short, indispensable.
"Midlife adults meet the same diagnostic criteria as younger patients ― struggling with symptoms such as restricting, bingeing or purging," said DeCaro, who also co-hosts the podcast All Bodies. All Foods.
For many, Omara Portuondo is best known for her participation in the Buena Vista Social Club; but the nonagenarian has lived many lives before and after the formation of the internationally recognized Cuban group. The new PBS documentary, "Omara: Cuba's Legendary Diva," looks to reexamine and capture the beauty and the chaos of these other many lives.
That not your [family member]'s formula entered the vernacular in a 1988 US car ad, when it was directed at dads: Not your father's Oldsmobile. Now, though, it seems mostly to have defaulted to mothers. It's a lazy marketing brag or headline, a shorthand for new, directional and disruptive, and I've started to hate it. I'm not usually actively angered by reflexive sexism and ageism; I tend to let it wash over me in a dispiriting wave.
The new film is based on Richard Osman's bestseller about four unlikely friends in a retirement home who meet weekly to solve cold cases. But when an unexplained death happens on their own doorstep, the fun and games become all too real. Dame Helen, 80, Brosnan, 72, Imrie, 73, and Gandhi star Sir Ben, 81, lead a stellar cast in the Steven Spielberg-produced whodunnit.
"Searching for somewhere to live in Dublin has been disheartening; many listings prefer female housemates and options are limited for someone in their late 40s."
"The Druids look almost exactly the same as they have always done for thirty years so I can't help thinking this is directed at me. Look - I'm nearly sixty years old. Of course I'm not going to look anything like my late twenties self!"
