I would be more interested in learning issues generally rather than
personal experiences, or maybe I have joined the wrong list.
With all the government consultation about adult learners going on, it
would be useful to know about problems of accreditation, delivery,
financing etc
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Martin Allinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Recently, I saw an estimate that it can be expected that 50% of today's
30-year-olds may live to 100 (http://www.ifaonline.co.uk/public).
My own PhD research in my years of advancing geriatricacy is on
Sustainable Economics and the leadership of the Mekong Basin countries.
(Apparently it is a noticeable phenomenon that many of us oldies get
interested in conjecturing about what we are going to miss seeing!!, (R.
Jackson, "Continuing Your Education in Retirement", Ameriprise Financial
Archive, 2006)).
At the time, I was doing a paper for an Engineering Conference on the ways
in which what we teach engineers, and how we teach it, should change as we
prepare them for the era of Sustainable-Sufficiency Economies.
If any of my greatgrandkids who are in school today become engineers, and
are in that 50%, they'll live to see some Low-Oil Lifestyles developed.
I wonder what will be the date when driving lessons will again start (as
mine did) on the seat of a greatgrandfather's cart behind a horse?
I see that Strathclyde, where we went in May 2007, has started a Centre
for Intergenerational Practice. Maybe I should get a horse and cart and
start doing a bit of it with the greatgrandkids.
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:32:00 +0000
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Thanks Patsy and Fiona.
Susan Greenfield talks about more of us getting to 100, so Fiona’s
aunt is a role model isn’t she!
Yes Patsy, I know what you mean about balancing the need to be in
charge of one’s life and the need to be looked after by others. My
old dad who died a few months ago at the age of 92 lived
independently and productively till the last eighteen months of his
life. I suppose it was the mice in the kitchen that did it for him
in the end, feeding as they did on his plates of uneaten food. In
his care home he could at first contribute to and indeed lead
conversation, and also play the piano, in particular the Blue Danube
which he performed with huge aplomb, ' it should sound like an
orchestra', and he had a regular circle of admirers. But by the end,
with a poor heart and the knowledge that he had indeed lost his home
and all but one bookcase’s worth of his books, he reached his 92nd
birthday, and then simply lost the will to live, dying just 10 days
later.
In fact I think it did work out alright for him, though if we had
realised about the mice a fair bit earlier who knows?
Best wishes,
Angie
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