Our Culture Club meeting on 8th November 2024 will focus on relationships between older people and their adult children. 

To prepare, please have a think beforehand about the ways in which the older parent-adult child relationship has been depicted in TV series, sitcoms and soap operas you may have viewed over the years, such as After Henry, Frasier, Bread, Only Fools and Horses, and also later ones like Motherland, Catastrophe and Outnumbered.

In the BBC drama first shown in 2019 entitled Elizabeth is Missing, Glenda Jackson’s daughter is disbelieving, even scornful when her mother, living with dementia in her own home, begins to solve the mystery of the disappearance of her sister 70 years before, and she sets about moving her mother to a care home. Unfortunately, this programme is no longer available on the BBC iPlayer, but many of you will have already seen it, while your local library may stock the book of the same name by Emma Healey on which the TV drama was based.

A couple more suggestions: in the film Book Club (not Book Club: The Next Chapter), four friends in their 70s and 80s embark on new romantic partnerships – often to the chagrin of their children. 

Also, inheritance by adult children is a major theme of Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Please register on this ticket platform if you would like to attend our Culture Club meeting on 9th November 2024. 

Culture Club is open to everyone and is free to attend. If you have any questions or would like more information about Culture Club meetings and Christians on Ageing, please contact our Honorary Secretary, Barbara Stephens, at secretary@christiansonageing.org.uk

With best wishes,

Marion Shoard, CoA Trustee