(55) Some participants associated menopause with getting older, a process they also saw as linked to osteoporosis, its complications and possible loss of function.
He was talking about getting older as a process of accumulating ghosts, in a good way.
Cattrall suggested that where that show talked about sex in an "intelligent and humorous" way, Sensitive Skin does the same thing for the process of getting older, with lead character Davina coming to terms with the ageing process: "How it feels to wake up in the morning and see the lines, and gravity taking over," as Cattrall put it.
Perhaps, he added, "that's just the process of getting older".
Of course, during the process of getting older, we make changes; but worrying about whether you are too old to wear a miniskirt is no big deal.
In the last half-century in the west, the process of getting older has ceased to necessitate (or perhaps even permit) what would once have been thought of as growing up – for example, in the wartime conditions in which Keith Douglas (dead at 24) or Wilfred Owen (dead at 26) wrote.
The song is a buoyant meditation on the puzzling and unseemly process of getting older, and the first verse contains what might be the greatest and most precise distillation of aging ever written: "I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more / I don't expect to sleep through the night". The gradual accrual of knowledge it both bolsters and defeats us.
When he confronted the prospect of turning 50, Bruun decided to seek input from others about the process of getting older.
If you're 24 or below, meaning the new £7.20 pay floor doesn't apply to you, I guess the prospect of growing out of poverty will make the process of getting older less painful.
Others believed that knee OA, like the deterioration described earlier, was part of a natural process of getting older: I think it's just because I am getting older … and my knees aren't as young as they used to be … I put it down to my ageing (Kate, 58 years).
"I don't think getting older is good for the creative process," she said.
