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Editorial In this third edition of Working with Older People for I’ve been reminded of this 2002, we’ve taken a look at some of the different partly because ‘what do you ways older people are involved with the arts – do?’ may not be the first question we automatically ask someone who’s over retirement age. Yet many of those who feature in this edition would be able to answer that they are actors, historians, craftsmen, cartoonists. What you do isn’t always the same as what you do for a living. Perhaps understanding this needs to be closer to the heart of creating and providing support and opportunities for older age. I also like this story for two other reasons. Although the writer’s response is, perhaps, slightly including the performing arts. These articles have put me in mind of a story I heard recently. This concerned a writer who, nearing the age when he could draw a state pension, was at a party with a surgeon of around the same age. They swapped the answers to the obligatory ‘And what do you do?’ (which, invariably, really means ‘what do you do for a living?’). The surgeon was obviously pleased to learn his companion’s occupation. ‘When I retire,’ the surgeon said ‘I’m going to be a writer’. ‘How interesting,’ countered the writer, ‘because when I retire I’m going to become a surgeon.’ tongue in cheek, perhaps gently pointing out to the surgeon that writing – like surgery – is a skill, it is also a good reminder that ambition isn’t only the prerogative of working-age adults. And, in a media climate that’s suggesting that some of us may not be full- time retirees until a much later age, how nice to think that we might have some other, rather unexpected, opportunities for paid work! Lorna Easterbrook Editor Working with Older People September 2002 Volume 6 Issue 3 © Pavilion http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Working with Older People Emerald Publishing

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Easterbrook, Lorna
Working with Older People , Volume 6 (3): 1 – Sep 1, 2002
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In this third edition of Working with Older People for I’ve been reminded of this 2002, we’ve taken a look at some of the different partly because ‘what do you ways older people are involved with the arts – do?’ may not be the first question we automatically ask someone who’s over retirement age. Yet many of those who feature in this edition would be able to answer that they are actors, historians, craftsmen, cartoonists. What you do isn’t always the same as what you do for a living. Perhaps understanding this needs to be closer to the heart of creating and providing support and opportunities for older age. I also like this story for two other reasons. Although the writer’s response is, perhaps, slightly including the performing arts. These articles have put me in mind of a story I heard recently. This concerned a writer who, nearing the age when he could draw a state pension, was at a party with a surgeon of around the same age. They swapped the answers to the obligatory ‘And what do you do?’ (which, invariably, really means ‘what do you do for a living?’). The surgeon was obviously pleased to learn his companion’s occupation. ‘When I retire,’ the surgeon said ‘I’m going to be a writer’. ‘How interesting,’ countered the writer, ‘because when I retire I’m going to become a surgeon.’ tongue in cheek, perhaps gently pointing out to the surgeon that writing – like surgery – is a skill, it is also a good reminder that ambition isn’t only the prerogative of working-age adults. And, in a media climate that’s suggesting that some of us may not be full- time retirees until a much later age, how nice to think that we might have some other, rather unexpected, opportunities for paid work! Lorna Easterbrook Editor Working with Older People September 2002 Volume 6 Issue 3 © Pavilion

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