People age differently depending on the lives they lead. DNA testing shows every year of living in a privately rented home add 2.4 weeks of ageing compared to those who own their home.
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Why we should all try to be biologically younger.
Could teenagers get on with older people and vice versa? Turned out, they could. And both flourished.
Currently, when someone turns 65 they are not eligible to apply for NDIS support, even if they had disability before then. We asked experts if that should change.
Victims of witchcraft accusations face alienation or exclusion from their communities.
Term limits for presidents were only written into the Constitution after the second world war. And members of Congress can still serve as long as they wish.
Children absorb these stereotypes from a young age. And ageism is all around us.
As we age, it can be hard to fathom the gap between our younger selves and the bodies we inhabit. Carol Lefevre explores this strange form of homesickness.
Aboriginal Elders play an important role as community leaders and cultural knowledge holders. Supporting this aspect of ageing well is crucial.
Our metabolism naturally slows down as we age and becomes dysfunctional after dieting. Here’s what you can do to give yours a boost.
Far from finding an ‘ageing time bomb’, the report paints a picture of a society in which the ratio of working Australians to dependents is little changed, with climate change the only big concern.
The latest Intergenerational Report shows Australia less old than it was going to be, but poorer. And eventually needing to pay more tax.
The financial impacts of an ageing Australia aren’t particularly worrisome, but we’ve been worrying for decades.
Doctors weren’t happy when celebrity Kim Kardashian promoted whole-body MRI scans recently. But that doesn’t mean they don’t hold promise for understanding ageing on a grander scale.
Many factors such as smoking, how much your exercise and what foods you eat, can affect your biological age.
In the short-term, inflammation is a sign your body is healing. But persistent levels of inflammation in blood and tissue, called ‘inflammaging’, is linked to disease. Diet might help.
An ageing population is caught in a perfect storm of rising house prices and rents, falling home ownership rates, mortgage debt carried into retirement, insecure rentals and a lack of social housing.
One proposal to fund the rising costs of aged care is a Medicare-style levy. However, this seemingly neat solution isn’t the answer to our aged care funding problems. Here’s why.
As governments push for longer working lives, workplaces will be need to accommodate of long-term health conditions.
Three promising new anti-ageing compounds have been found by artificial intelligence models.
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Professor of Biogerontology, University of Brighton
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PhD student, University of Buckingham
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Professor: Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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NHMRC Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Sydney
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Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Chair of Molecular Biogerontology, University of Birmingham
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ESRC Strategic Adviser on Quantitative Methods Training, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
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Reader in Molecular Genetics of Ageing, University of Essex
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