Psychology

When grief doesn’t end

Suffering the sudden death of a loved person leaves some survivors stuck in grief. Can they win their lives back – and how?

Martin W Angler

A decade after his wife was swept away in a tsunami, Yasuo still searches the sea

9 minutes

When his elderly parents make a suicide pact, Doron struggles to accept their choice

19 minutes

‘It’s not beautiful, but it’s interesting’ – an ageing nude model surveys her body

4 minutes

Death is a trip – how new research links near-death and DMT experiences

9 minutes

Old not Other

Here’s a puzzle: why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join? Beauvoir had an answer

Kate Kirkpatrick & Sonia Kruks

How an end-of-life doula found her vocation as a companion for the dying

7 minutes

Love evolves and death isn’t worth your worry – life lessons from an 88-year-old

7 minutes

The gender of dementia

Are women really at greater risk from dementia? Until we reckon with social roles and inequalities, it’s impossible to say

Kate Gregorevic

A retired teacher embarks on a mission to find out what became of a beloved student

16 minutes

The self in dementia is not lost, and can be reached with care

Muireann Irish

Why older people should be allowed to change their legal age

Joona Räsänen

‘Old age is a ceremony of losses’: the late poet Donald Hall on a life lived long

13 minutes

‘You wanna get rid of me?’ When the time comes to move mom into assisted living

19 minutes

Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences

Christian Jarrett