Fireside Chat with Professor Rose Anne Kenny
Monday 23rd June at 18.30 | The Drawing Room and Zoom | £15.00 per person*
*Includes one glass Prosecco
*£10.00 for those joining via Zoom
If you imagine that “Age Proof”, Professor Rose Anne Kenny’s international bestseller, will tell you how to stop the clock and live forever you are mistaken and will be disappointed. What the book , subtitled “The New Science Of Living A Longer And Healthier Life”, does, instead, is give you (and the tens of thousands who already have a copy) scientific insight into the ageing process and how we can best ensure our later years (whenever they may be) are savoured rather than no more than a steady decline.
As professor at Trinity College, Dublin, of Gerontology – a study of ageing – Kenny specialises in these later years. Her research into this has earned her a fellowship at Trinity, Dublin as well as from the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Ireland, and in London and Edinburgh. If you dispute the benefits of cold shower, Professor Kenny will show you proof that they are very good for you in slowing the sands of time. If you worry that red wine might accelerate the ageing process, Professor Kenny has welcome assurances that abstinence is far from necessary in retirement. She does advise you to stay curious as she can prove how an active mind is a great antidote to ageing. Likewise, good company. This is of course guaranteed in the Drawing Room sitting comfortably for this latest Fireside Chat. Likewise, afterwards at the Coffee Room supper table, where and when, as is now traditional, a few select attendees of the Fireside Chat can reconvene with the evening’s guest of honour once Drawing Room proceedings are over for an extended and more detailed consideration of the night’s main thrust.