Climate change is no longer a distant concern. For many of us, it’s becoming a lived reality — seen in more frequent bushfires, heatwaves, and floods like those recently devastating the Mid North Coast of NSW — and this hits many in midlife or older age especially hard. In this article we explore why it hits different and what you can do.

While the terms dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are often used interchangeably, they’re not the same thing. In this article we’ll explore the difference, and how Upside Stories can support you or someone you love.

According to the 2024 Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care, up to 48% of dementia cases may be linked to key risk factors — many of which you can influence.

Grandparents are an army of proxy-parents for many families, playing a vital role in raising the next generation. Yet sometimes as a grandparent, you may find that the parenting approaches you adopt don’t always line up with how your kids are raising your grandkids.

Loneliness is experienced by everyone at some point in life, whether after moving cities, following a breakup, or during major transitions like parenting, caregiving, or retirement. These transitions often converge in midlife and beyond, when caregiving increases, friendships shift, or the impact of past discrimination resurfaces. Loneliness has now reached epidemic levels in many countries and it is uniquely felt within LGBTQIA+ communities.

If you've been through a major upheaval, adversity, or trauma — particularly in midlife and beyond, when life transitions like divorce, caregiving, job loss, chronic illness, or bereavement can bring major disruption — you're likely to be familiar with the after-effects. Traumatic responses might include shock, numbness, and denial, the intrusive re-experiencing of memories and efforts to both avoid and bring meaning to those memories.