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EPISODE · Feb 3, 2026 · 18 MIN

Love, loss and expressing yourself in your third age

from Life Matters - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

What age did you consider yourself "too old" to wear certain outfits? Did you feel too old to try on certain identities — ones you once felt comfortable in? Playwright Peta Murray and author David Carlin examine it all from the pivotal moment their lives intersected, when their parents became hallmates at a nursing home in inner city Melbourne.They wrote about about the complexities of caring for aging parents as you confront aging itself in a new memoir, How to Dress for Old Age. 

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