The State of Social Connection: A Life Course Matter Ageing and Social Connection cont'd

However, I can hear rumblings in the distance, and I think that perceptual change is afoot. There’s a reason why the UN have declared this the decade of Healthy Ageing (2020 – 2030): because amidst the world’s chaotic state of pandemic navigation, economic upheaval, conflict, and ‘identity wars’, we are beginning to recognize one unifying force: that we are all ageing, and this needs to be in the front of our minds with a growth mindset to seize that longer midlife transition, not be an afterthought and deny ageing as though it were only a category or stage reached only in later life.

This article was on her website Mobilising Wisdom (mobilisingwisdom.com/f/the-state-of-social-connection-a-life-coursematter?) and is reproduced with the kind generosity and permission from Dr. Ginnivan.

Dr. Natasha Ginnivan holds a Bachelor of Science (Psych), UNSW, Grad Dip (Psych), Macquarie University and a PhD in Population Health, Psychology & Ageing, ANU.

Dr. Ginnivan is a Senior Research Associate with the School of Population Health. She is an Associate Investigator with the Ageing Futures Institute whose focus is on investigating implicit and cultural attitudes to ageing, stigma and ageing, age stereotypes and self-perceptions of ageing. Her research includes the lived experience of ageing and dementia and ageing in marginalized populations, including ageing prisoners. Her current research focuses on elder abuse in the form of financial abuse and drug mule scams and ageing prisoner health.