President Biden is 80 years old and arguably the most powerful individual in the world. Former US senator George Mitchell, one of the key brokers of the Good Friday Agreement, is 89 and has acute leukemia. He gave a powerful 44-minute speech in Belfast yesterday. Yet why do stereotypes still abound when it comes to older people? Author Alice Taylor is 85.
She’s recently published a book, The Nana, and is writing a new one.
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