Older people in the media awards - vote for your favourite

John Simpson for still getting out there and telling us what's going on in strife-riven parts of the world.

Too hard to choose, Joanna Lumley for the Gurkha campaign, Vanessa Redgrave for the Howard League; both of them plus Jane Lapotaire for ignoring their age and just carrying on working!

My vote goes to Sheila Hancock.She has just made a stand against the raising of car insurance for older people.

Older person in the media ?

Janet Street Porter needs an honorable mention. Love the way she tells it like it is, always seems cheerful, and actually seems to get things done. She's the sort of person you'd like to have a drink with too and there's not many of 'em I'd say that about !

I nominate Category 3 Caron Cares www.caroncares.co.uk

Caron has a very informative site which is kept up to date with useful, honest and invaluable blogs. Caron comes from a hands on caring role and understands the real pressures that both carers and the elderly face on a day to day basis.

I wish her all the very best in this category and have my fingers and toes crossed for her.

The BBC's John Humphries is an inspiration. Not for any specific championing of older people's issues but because, as an older person himself, he stands up to bullying politicians without losing his cool, asks the right questions and makes everything he discusses interesting. He's also very versatile, moving from Radio Four's breakfast time news to Mastermind and other programmes with ease.

Where is Esther Rantzen in all this for category 3? Throughout her life she has brought laughter as well as effective practical and accessible support to those who need it. Following That's Life, Meet a Mum and Child Line she has set up Silver Line for the elders amongst us who find themselves alone. She has also brought back her cheeky street interviewing style in the past few months to The One Show - hopefully as far back as August last year.........

Different category-new series
open to any fictional character in a book, film, TV or radio drama who has appeared in a new work (story line/episodes/film/new series) in the UK between the dates of Friday 15 August 2014 and Friday 14 August 2015.

Same with 'Vicious'.

If Caron Sprake has been operating for 'some years' then she doesn't fit the critiera for Everyday Ageism Hero.

"The award is open to campaigns that have run in any medium but they must have first appeared between the dates of Friday 15 August 2014 and Friday 14 August 2015." (From the full GN Rules)

Actually I gave 8 names if you count so don't think I can be accused of bringing the thread to a 'grinding halt.' (Not that it was ever going at a rapid speed anyway). If you want me to list them again they are
Ian Mckellan, Derek Jacobi or Frances de la Tour for Viscious
Ian Mckellen for Mr Holmes
Jonathan Pryce for Wolsey in Wolf Hall
Penelope Keith , Gryff Rhys Jones or Joanna Lumley for their travel programmes
Tony Robinson for his Walking through History
Oh and I've thought of anoyther one
Michael Portillo for his Railway Programme
I also named Germaine Greer and Joan Bakewell as two people who are great spokespeople. My argument is that there are now too many to cjoose just one person
and older people are well represented in the Media

Nomination for Category 2 - Caron Sprake

As a self-employed home-help for the elderly, Caron Sprake sees on a daily basis the challenges that the elderly face with reduced mobility, pain, impaired sight and hearing loss, with loneliness being an additional problem for many.

It is Caron's passion to help older people live happy and fulfilled lives. Health and social care services are already under pressure and this is only likely to increase as a result of our ageing population and longer life expectancy.

Being self-employed as a home-help allows Caron more freedom than being part of an agency and she absolutely loves her work. She says it is more like having an extended family than working. She has worked in a caring role for most of her adult life and she believes that it is her vocation.

Caron administers her own web site about caring for the elderly - www.caroncares.co.uk

I nominate Category 3 Caron Cares www.caroncares.co.uk

For some years now Caron has been 'hands-on' caring and also putting expert advice and information on her internet site (as above).

Nothing is ever too much trouble for Caron when it comes to caring for the elderly.

I wish her the very best of luck in her category.

What a pity! This thread has now come to a grinding halt for the usual reasons! Can't we ignore hissy comments and have some more names etc and why - please!

It could be deemed to be 'blo---y' condescending to accuse others of being 'blo---y' condecending.

What a contentious comment over such a trivial thread.

You can' win lately Lara .

Nobody ever really means to be condescending it just happens. Yes there are wonderful older people and I would say they do pretty well at holding their own in all walks of life. So why does someone feel the need to single them out for Media awards? There was time when people complained you didn't see enough older people in the media. I think that time has passed. Penelope Keith, Joanna Lumley, Griff Rhys Jones have all done excellent travel programmes add Tony Robinson for his walking programme. There are so many- let's focus on how good they are and stop making a big thing of their age!

I don't think anybody on here means to be condescending. For me nominating a senior celebrity is just a bit of fun and certainly not meant to be detrimental or patronising to anything or anyone else. There are many wonderful older people to admire for all sorts of reasons, in fact I think most of us would agree that we're spoilt for choice! I saw Penelope Keith the other night on TV taking the viewer around a particular village, and she made me feel really positive and lifted my spirits. She would certainly be my second choice, if I was allowed one?!!!!!

Nominating Category 3 Caron Cares www.caroncares.co.uk/

Caron has a brilliant informative website caring for older people, and she really takes after her name and cares.
What ever you want to know about caring for older people Caron gives expert advice and information. She writes with passion as she has had first-hand experience on caring for the elderly.
My vote goes to Caron Cares

I was seriously considering this and then I thought it is actually b****y condescending. No I can't pick one person for an older character award because there are plenty of actors who appear in all sorts of things and who are fantastic. There's ian Mckellen in Viscious and Mr Holmes, Derek Jacobi in Viscious, Francis de la Tour in it as well. There was Jonathan Pryce as Wolsey in Wolf Hall and loads of others.
I don't need to have ageism promoted in a positive light all my friends are doing it.
And we still have people like Germaine Greer and Joan Bakewell speaking out about many issues.
Can we please just treat older people as ordinary members of the public and stop speaking to them as if they are deaf or brain dead, or giving them condescending special awards. We compete with younger people every day on every level and mostly we win.

Category 2 - nominating www.opaalcopa.org.uk blog

The Older People's Advocacy Alliance is delivering a project called Cancer, Older People and Advocacy, its blog serves to highlight issues facing older people affected by cancer and contains over 200 posts on topics as wide ranging as the emotional impact of a cancer diagnosis, finance and welfare, combatting loneliness, family life and in short the ‘rollercoaster’ experience of living with cancer.

The blog has proved important reading for thousands of visitors and has led to high-impact work including the publication of a book called Every Step of the Way in 2014 which expands on 13 stories of older people affected by cancer accessing peer advocacy support so they are not facing a cancer diagnosis alone.

Our campaign is telling stories that would otherwise not be told, there is a patient/peer support element to this, but crucially there is a wider advocacy and campaigning element that is about amplifying older people’s voices. We are engaged in promoting equal opportunities across cancer treatment pathways, this is about ensuring older people are not discriminated against or treated unfairly because of their age, but we are also starting conversations about good practice that are otherwise not being had, about older LGBT people and cancer for example.

The COPA blog serves as a reminder that older people affected by cancer are not defined by age or by their diagnosis and that our partners and volunteers are with them ‘every step of the way’.

Older person in the media. I rather like Gloria Hunniford. She is still working and seems rather lovely, getting on with it despite losing her daughter.

Older person in media...Angela Rippon - elegant, charming and still working hard with consumer issues and journalistic programmes.

Debbie Harry! She's amazing. And she's just turned 70. 70 I tell you! Who says the rocknroll lifestyle is ageing!? Happy birthday Debbie! (no 3).

You didn't nit pick Ana, thank you for explaining , I didn't read all

If you look at the More Details link at the end of the OP it says it has to be a new work. (See my post of 26th June).

Sorry to nitpick, but your choice won't count if it doesn't meet the criteria.