Australia's Most Needed Conversation Finally Gets Its Voice: Agehood Podcast Launches

The phone rings again. This one you have to take. Dad has had another fall. You're stretched thin between packing lunches and sports pickup, researching aged care facilities during lunch breaks, fielding calls from doctors while in meetings, and trying to keep your own life on track.

You're the family organiser, crisis manager, medical coordinator, and emotional support system—the one everyone calls when things go wrong. You're in your "agehood," and it's time we talked about it.

Agehood, the groundbreaking new podcast proudly brought to you by Violet and hosted by Melissa Reader, CEO of Violet, launches this week with intimate conversations about what looms so large for so many: watching our parents age, being everyone's go-to person, and the tangled tender mess of love and duty that defines caring for those we care about.

With Australia's 85+ population set to triple in the coming decades, these conversations can't stay whispered in hospital corridors anymore. They need to be shared, honoured, and held with the tenderness they deserve.

Season 1 brings together Australia's most trusted voices including Sarah Macdonald's devastating honesty about fighting for her father's gentle death, Bernard Salt AM on the economic reality of Australia's ageing crisis, Geraldine Doogue AO on love and letting go, and Gogglebox favourites Isabelle Richardson and Kerry Mulligan sharing their heartbreaking journey with Emie's dementia.

Wellways Carer Gateway and Billwill are proud presenting partners of Agehood.

Listen to Agehood on all your favourite podcasting platforms.