Call for Aging Population Related Articles Volume 17: Submission by May 1, 2025

Hello: I think this is a very interesting project. The subject is very important; I spent a year in New York City (in the year 2000) and I realised that I had become almost invisible - and this must have been down to my age. I was 50 at the time - and taught at the City University, New York - after having just completed my PhD on the struggles involved in 'teaching ethics to experienced police leaders and managers'. Then, a few years back in the UK, I retired and a decade later began an MA in Fine Art -  and the contemporary practices of Fine Art. During this course - and despite my radical education and studies in everything to do with culture and liberation - I was told that I used words that were old-fashioned and 'were not Fine Art words.' And so there you have it! People like me have been rendered 'irrelevant' or worse - even though we completely understand, following Heidegger, that the world we were 'thrown into' no longer exists and that a new cultural configuration determines the making of people - and their psychologies. It is a shame because all those years of learning, and an extensive stock of cultural knowledge, are (for want of a better word) lost. I remain surprised that the kind of society and culture in which I finds myself has little use for me and which assumes that I am a kind of relic of the past.