Doing more trips around the sun does not mean inevitable decline, new research suggests – and having a optimistic outlook can even bring improvements
By most standards, Prof Velandai Srikanth is at the peak of his career. He is the director of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing; his decades of highly regarded research have led to work being published in leading scientific journals; and he has been awarded funding from some of the world’s biggest scientific funding bodies.
He has also turned 60 and says that, as soon as he did, “somebody said ‘so when are you going to retire?’” The comment shocked him – he realised this was the stigma of ageing, and it was coming for him.