Men on the questions of ageing

Much maligned middle-aged men.

Apart from platforms on which to express their “Grumpiness”, Where can they share their real feelings? Where’s the opportunity to go deeper, to talk about what’s really going on as time begins to take its toll, to give others a better understanding, and to help them grapple with and find answers to the challenging questions of ageing?

But how many questions on ageing are there?

Ageism? Fitness? Wealth? Hobbies? Learning? Vulnerability? Virility? Man-o-pause? Downsizing? Illnesses? Clothes? Looks? Style? Vanity? Children? SettingKidsUp? Partners? Confidence? Sleep? Family? ManBoobs? Sex? Libido? Friendships? ImportanceOfTheGroup? Love? Supplements? Drugs? Cycling? TheBolthole? ToTheMancave? Achievement? Plans? Attraction? Future? Simplifying? Relocation? Self-worth? Self-esteem? Hair? Wordliness? Work? Demons? GivingBack? Volunteering? Decumulation? ToxicOlderMasculinity? Legacy? Relaxing? Gardening? DyingParents? EstatePlanning? Worrying? Inheritance? BuyingAWhippet? Being’Careful’ Mortality? BrainFog? Adventure? EscapeToTheCountry? PetHates? Inspiration? Depression? Mentoring? TechnoFear? BucketLists? Confidence? Alcohol? Screening? Aspiration? UnrealisedAmbition? Leisure? ComingToTerms? HittingSixty? Spirituality? Stopping? Reinvention? Utopia? Freedom? LossOfEnergy? BeingOfferedASeat? OutwardSigns? Pensions? Knees? Feet? HearingAids? AskingForHelp? Tools? SelfGrooming? DecisionTime? LosingFriends? FixedAttitudes? Retirement? GivingUp? Changes? Acceptance? RoleChange? Cancer? DrivingOn? BloodPressure? Statins? Avoidance? Prostate? Regret? Priorities? Success? NHS? RepeatPrescriptions? Feelings? Forgetting? Fear? Anger? Driving? GrandParentHood? WearingWell? Holidays? Humour? Authenticity? Desperation? SelfPreservation? Experience? Relevance? Eating? LosingStuff? And seemingly, every day, a few more…

Fifty something Andrew and sixty something Simon discuss men and ageing, how men feel about the many issues arising from the changes facing them as they grow older. Getting slower, losing hair, gaining weight, searching for toilets, finding more freedom but also a shedload of financial, physical and emotional upheaval.

There’s plenty to make you laugh, more than enough to make you want to cry and each week we talk to the best possible authorities on the process of ageing: ageing men who are making it up as they go along.

Guests will vary from the well-known to the unknown, the fit to the unfit, the well-off to the well up against it.

In honest, revealing and often inspiring conversations we’ll find, no matter what the circumstances, every man has his own age-related challenges and his own ways of rising above them even if he hasn’t found them yet.

We won’t eliminate the negatives but we will accentuate the positives.

And a big one of those is we’re all getting older together and we can all do it better by learning from each other.

Let’s see if us men can be older men with growing optimism and enthusiasm.