Oldenland – Roger Clough
in conversation with Alan Walker
10 October, 2025 at 12:30:00
Old age is a country and we need to learn to walk through it. That’s just what Roger Clough, former Professor of Social Care, hill walker in the Peak District and current resident of ‘Oldenland’ spends his time doing. How do we learn to actually be old? How do we spend our later years in a meaningful way that makes sense of who we’ve been and who we are now, empowered to not lose who we are; to say ‘I am still me‘. And, if we have not yet arrived at its borders, how can we better understand those who live there, and better prepare ourselves for a future when we will become citizens too?
Written over 25 years and innumerable journeys, Oldenland is a unique and moving companion to the experiences of old age, and how to make it count.
Alan Walker CBE is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology in the School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. He was previously Director of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme and Co-Director of the Healthy Lifespan Institute.
Roger Clough photo credit David Clough
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10 October, 2025
12:30:00
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