title: It depends on.
abstract: Despite an ageing population we live in a culture full of fear about becoming older. Old age is seen as an almost entirely negative phenomenon with decline on all fronts. In a brilliant speech at a recent conference, Rosalie Hudson (2002) joined those pushing back the boundaries of the way we think about ageing. After all, the way we think about ageing is just that, thoughts, and thoughts have no power of their own except that which we choose to give them.
authors.affiliation: St Martin's College Lancaster, is chair of the Sacred Space Foundation.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wright