Engaging with Ageing

82-year-old health sociologist Anne Ring’s book, Engaging with Ageing: What matters as we grow older, challenges the stigma of old age, with a fresh and realistically positive approach that acts as a reader’s travel guide to navigating how they choose to age. This one-stop guide to ageing well while managing the challenges along the way aims to empower its readers - both women and men - to explore how they will be old rather than how old they are. Extensively researched and up-to-date, Engaging with Ageing is full of stories, quotes and advice from people of all professions, passions and stages of ageing. It is broken into easy-to-read sections, with Anne's Top Tips summarising key points of interest.

About the presenter: Anne Ring’s book draws on an extensive professional and personal knowledge base about growing older, and old. Professionally, she has a PhD in health sociology (undertaken in her 50s), comparing health, body image and ageing issues for women and for men, and she has continued to monitor these issues since, as well as writing extensively about them, as a freelance writer, in a variety of media. Her evolution as a social scientist also included qualifications and professional experience in psychology (BA), and then in medical anthropology (MA), and health education (Grad. Dip), and for a decade she was principal researcher in medical education research at the University of Queensland (publishing as Anne Wise). Personally, she understands some of the highs and lows of ageing both through her own increasing experience as she has aged, and also as a carer and advocate for her elderly parents in their final years.

The continuing interest generated by her book has resulted in her becoming an increasingly prominent speaker on the complex realities of ageing, and the challenges of ageism, in many different venues as well as on radio and television. She is also on the Steering Committee of the national EveryAGE Counts Campaign, combatting ageism.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

AH Bracks Library + Creative Space, 431 Canning Highway (cnr of Stock Road), Melville, Australia