http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-14635576

Good on her, I say!

at least she won't have to worry about prematuring ageing as a result of the PhD process!

Hope it goes well for her (up)

Amazing, what an awesome lady! I've been working with older people with and without dementia for my PhD and I never cease to be amazed by how active some of my older participants are! Some of my participants in their 90s were still cruising round different parts of the world every year- I hope I'm like that one day :) KB

I can't find the link right now but I'm pretty sure Amanda Vickery (historian) twittered fairly recently about a 95-year-old man who had just completed his PhD at a London University, maybe QMUL or RHUL. If he wasn't 95 he was close to that.

Found it. He was 93.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23971874-a-phd-in-philosophy-at-93-but-student-vows-to-carry-on.do

Some of us somewhat younger than 95 (but more than 40 and upwards) who are about to start a PhD. I've heard of several people who have:-)