Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Podcast
Care & Caregiving
Equity & Value
Policy & Systems
Future of Ageing
My Notes
About
If Everything Is a Crisis, Nothing Is Owned
Why aged care’s “disaster” narrative hides predictable strain and deferred responsibility..
10 hrs ago
•
Jane Barratt
4
1
Looking Sideways in a City That Builds Up
Ageing, visibility, and the lives lived three doors down
Feb 10
•
Jane Barratt
12
4
4
The New Old Age Isn’t New. It’s Rebranded.
Why longevity still comes with conditions
Feb 3
•
Jane Barratt
25
23
6
When the Price of Care Decides Who Goes Without
How long-term care systems sort people by money, timing, and access
Jan 27
•
Jane Barratt
11
9
3
Somewhere to Go
What music reveals about choice, dignity, and ageing
Jan 20
•
Jane Barratt
19
15
5
Latest
Top
Discussions
Growing Older Without Familiar Ground
How systems misread people as they age
Jan 13
•
Jane Barratt
11
5
3
When Ageing Is Heard, But Only in Economic Terms
What happens when advocacy succeeds, but the governing logic stays the same
Jan 6
•
Jane Barratt
10
3
2
Longevity, policy design, and the cost of institutional delay
This essay marks my thirty-fifth Substack for The Arc of Ageing.
Dec 31, 2025
•
Jane Barratt
13
14
2
The Stories We Tell About Ageing. What They Allow Us to Avoid
Why honest ageing matters for policy, systems, and real lives
Dec 24, 2025
•
Jane Barratt
24
4
12
When Systems Move Faster Than People
Why Speed Is Failing Older People
Dec 17, 2025
•
Jane Barratt
11
7
1
Old Age is Not a Disease
When a Single Code Can Redefine Us
Dec 10, 2025
•
Jane Barratt
27
6
7
How We Misjudge the Most Capable Years of Life
Policy is never abstract.
Dec 3, 2025
•
Jane Barratt
14
5
2
See all
The Arc of Ageing
I’m Dr. Jane Barratt. I write to awaken our moral and strategic imagination — because the systems we build today will determine the dignity, care, and futures of every generation to come.
Subscribe
Recommendations
The Artist Morning™
Darius Bashar
Helen Hirsh Spence
Helen Hirsh Spence
The Arc of Ageing
Subscribe
About
Archive
Recommendations
Sitemap
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts