Suddenly Senior Podcast

29/01/2024

What a bloody legend! Oh ... and he's funny too ...

Tim Ferguson Doug Anthony Allstars DAAS LIVE

He’s only just turned 60 but he's already familiar with issues around aged-care facilities, because he’s been trying to keep young people out of them. Tim Ferguson is best known for his comedy work with The Doug Anthony Allstars but has many other accomplishments under his belt, not least his ad...

21/01/2024

Have you been getting enough lately?

Neuroscientist Stan Rodski has the lowdown on how to get more sleep as you age.

Sleep becomes such a valuable commodity in our older years but unfortunately, for many of us, it gets harder to fall asleep as we age. Dr Stan Rodski is a neuroscientist, a neuroplastician, and most importantly a sleep expert! He shares his tips for regular good quality sleep. You can read more in h

15/01/2024

Love ya style Deb!

Deborah Conway & W***y Zygier

Youth is the currency of the music industry but Deborah Conway believes you can make age work for you if you apply a bit of creative thinking.  During the 90s she was the 'it' girl of the Australian music scene. At the age of 64 she’s still as creative, passionate, and fired up as she ever

11/12/2023

We love you Neil Murray! You're a champ! ###

As a founding member of the Warumpi Band Neil Murray inadvertently wrote Australia’s unofficial national song. He also helped record the first rock song sung in an indigenous language. After a life on the road touring and performing, these days he’s focussing on living a simple life and preservi...

03/12/2023

Have you been a victim of ageism in the workplace?

Robert Tickner believes it's so common class action is inevitable.

Robert Tickner began his advocacy with Friends of the Earth and ended up becoming the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the Hawke/Keating governments. He's still fighting for the underdog as Chair of the Justice Reform Initiative, as well as being Co-chair of the EveryAGE Counts initiative

27/11/2023

Fearless chat with Carol Lefevre - Author Page about some of the things we lose when we age.

As we grow older we find ourselves grieving the loss of many things; our friends and family, our homes and neighbourhood, our bodies and minds, and more surprisingly many of us  grieve the loss of our own sense of self. Writer Carol Lefevre likens this grief to a type of ‘homesickn

19/11/2023

Woot woot! Surfing with an Opal Card!!

Bryan Brown's acting career started in the 70s with films like The Odd Angry Shot and Breaker Morant and he quickly became a fixture on our screens, and still is. But he’s also a producer and a writer of books, his most recent titled The Drowning. He doesn't think about death much, has no plans to...

18/11/2023

Dropping this Monday ... Australian cinema legend Mr Bryan Brown talks surfing with an opal card ...

12/11/2023

It's been a while but we have a fresh season of Suddenly Senior starting off with the fabulous Mr Iva Davies!


ICEHOUSE

Iva Davies followed an unconventional path to pop-star status. Initially immersed in the world of classical music (he even did a stint in the ABC Training Orchestra) he went on to pioneer Australia’s electronic music scene with his band Icehouse and has become one of the country’s most highly re...

15/08/2023

Could always move to Japan?

Four in 10 companies hired people aged 70 or more last year

10/08/2023

Hey there Seniors!

We’ve got THREE double passes to give away to the film MY SAILOR, MY LOVE.

Here’s the trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKrHZTAmU20

And here’s where it can be seen - https://www.kismetmovies.com/releases/my-sailor-my-love

Hit us up in the DMs if you’re keen.

08/08/2023

Hot stuff! Get it into ya!

Chilli might turn up the heat on the food you eat but turn down the risk of dementia, researchers at one Queensland university say.

06/08/2023

Have a listen to our latest episode or we'll rip your bloody arms off ... 😀

Grahame Bond changed Australian TV forever with his mad-cap creation Aunty Jack, a fat and feisty persona who frequently threatened to ‘rip your bloody arms off’. This led to a portfolio career with digressions into advertising, lifestyle television, and blockbuster stage shows like Boys Own McB...

30/06/2023

What a bunch of legends!

30/05/2023

Heather Mitchell is excited about ... and we're excited to be chatting with Heather!

Australian actor Heather Mitchell has been on our screens or stages every year since her career began in the 1980s. Now into her 60s she’s still got plenty of job offers rolling in. She says that’s because older women no longer buy into old norms around the ageing process and there’s demand fo...

22/05/2023

What can a Smart, Stupid and Sixty year old teach Ange and Ian about getting old? ... There's a reason Nigel Marsh has a s**t load of TED talk views ....

First he was Fat, Forty and Fired. Then he was Fit, Fifty and Fired Up. Now Nigel Marsh reckons he’s Smart, Stupid and Sixty. He must be doing something right because his TED speech on work/life balance has clocked up over four million hits. Oh, and he also hosts The Five of My Life podcast.

14/05/2023

Ever woken up in the middle of the night thinking about death? As Jane Hutcheon discovered it's called a mortality alarm.

If you’ve started waking suddenly in the night with an acute and anxious awareness of the inevitability of death, you’re not alone. After experiencing this herself, journalist and author Jane Hutcheon discovered that it’s a common phenomenon for people in their late 50s and 60s. That’s when ...

07/05/2023

How do you get to be crowned 'Senior Influencer of the Year'? Actor and podcast host Lex Marinos tells all.

Not all 'influencers' are young and vacuous, posting thousands of images on Instagram which promote products that end up in landfill. Lex Marinos (Kingswood Country, Aunty Jack, Matlock Police) was recently crowned Senior Influencer of the Year for his role as co-host of the podcast Baby Bo

02/05/2023

Once a punk, always a punk

Punk rock exploded in 1977 with a raw power seldom seen since. But Johnny Rotten (as he used to call himself) is 67 now, and most of his fans from that time are in their 60s. So what became of all that energy, spiky hair and safety-pins?

01/05/2023

Hey Oldsters!! ... don't slow down ... and keep those muscles working somehow ... could help you ward off dementia ...

Background Impaired muscle function has been identified as a risk factor for declining cognitive function and cardiovascular health, both of which are risk factors for late-life dementia (after 80 y...

30/04/2023

Still a s***k! We love you Reggie!

Reg Mombassa

If there was an aesthetic that defined Australia’s rock/pop culture in the 80s then Reg Mombassa was surely a master crafter of it. His band Mental As Anything was heard on radio around the country and it seemed everyone wore a Mambo t-shirt featuring his darkly-comic art.

23/04/2023

Been nodding off a bit more lately? Neuroscience says naps are good for the ageing brain. Find out why with Dr Sarah McKay from Your Brain Health

One of the biggest worries many of us have as we age relates to brain function. So what can neuroscience tell us about the ageing brain, can we improve brain function and is it different for men and women. Dr Sarah McKay is an author and neuroscientist and the creator of The Neuroscience Academy.

16/04/2023

What does a gerontologist do? And what should we call old people? Keryn Curtis spills the beans

If there’s one thing we’ve learned making this podcast it’s that a lot of people prefer to avoid the topic of ageing. But Keryn Curtis has made a living out of it. She became fascinated with gerontology in her 40s and says it changed the way she views life. She also reveals the preferred ...

15/04/2023

Gerontologist Keryn Curtis explores the language of ageing in the next episode of Suddenly Senior. Coming this Monday!! Tune in to find out our new favourite word.








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09/04/2023

As the host of Have You Been Paying Attention?, Tom Gleisner cops a barrage of ageist jokes. Is he the most vilified person on TV?

Is Tom Gleisner the most vilified person on Australian TV? He’s been making Australia laugh for decades with shows like Utopia, Front Line, Hollowmen, and D Generation, but as the host of Have You Been Paying Attention he fends off a barrage of ageist jibes every week, and he's only recently turne...

06/04/2023

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