Ageing Without Children: A Roundtable Discussion (02 Oct)

Thu Oct 02 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm UTC+01:00

Fourth Wall Folkestone CIC | Folkestone

Fourth Wall Folkestone CIC
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Ageing Without Children: A Roundtable Discussion (02 Oct)
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A Roundtable Discussion with Penny Shepherd (AWOC East Kent) and Abigail Levitt (Solo Sisters), chaired by Sarah Lloyd (FWF)
About this Event

DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, WE'VE ADDED ANOTHER DATE!

Whatever your age, bring your comments and concerns about Ageing Without Children to this roundtable. Let’s discuss what an “AWOC-friendly” health system and society would look like and how we can make it happen.

Increasing numbers of people are ageing without “next generation” support (“AWOCs”) either because they have not had children or for other reasons like estrangement, distance, death or a child’s own additional needs. And yet health and social care still assumes that there will be a family advocate to organise support and fill the gaps as we age. For many of us that isn’t true. One in five women born in the mid-1960s had no children – up from less than one in ten in the mid-1940s. 50% of women now reach their 30th birthday without giving birth and many will remain childless for life. We need to redesign society so that people without family support can age well.

Full details can be found on our website.

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This talk forms part of : a multidisciplinary series of creative events, talks, exhibitions and workshops exploring Women’s Health and diet culture.

Still Sick Of It is kindly supported by Creative Folkestone and The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust.

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Fourth Wall Folkestone CIC, 10-12 The Old High Street, Folkestone, United Kingdom

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