Success during the pandemic hinges on people taking social distancing seriously. What do you do when someone doesn’t? The people who negotiate humanitarian aid in crises have some lessons for you.
It’s critical to help the older adults in your life forgo their routines and embrace social distancing.
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Is grunting a sign that we’re ageing fast? Or is it just one of those things that come with the middle years, like reading glasses, greying hair and ‘dad jokes’?
If all of these devices really work together, they can be a bigger help than any one of them alone.
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Warren Sanderson, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York) and Sergei Scherbov, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
People who are 65 and up can expect to live longer than ever before. Does it make sense to keep classifying everyone in this group as old? A pair of demographers argue for ‘age inflation.’
Home care packages are a viable alternative to residential aged care for many older Australians. But the process to secure these packages can be long and complicated.
Granny flats are often the result of informal arrangements between parents and children who assume it will all work out well.
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Parents and children rarely put agreements about granny flats in writing and almost never consult a lawyer. But when these arrangements go wrong, the consequences can be disastrous and costly for all.
Healthy people now in their 50s and 60s will be the first generations to benefit from reform. For people already in care, changes will come too late.
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By the time the aged care royal commission’s recommendations lead to improvements in our nursing homes, four cohorts of residents will have died. Here’s why.
Christmas can be a lonely time for older people, particularly the growing number who live in rural areas. Technology could help the crisis of social isolation in old age.
More elderly people may soon be pinching pennies.
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Americans are increasingly struggling to save enough for retirement. If Social Security isn’t saved, growing old in poverty will likely become more common.
Social robots are one way to provide lonely seniors with companionship.
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Half of Australians feel lonely for at least one day a week, while one in four feel lonely for three or more days. This can impact on sleep, heart health and levels of anxiety.
Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Unit Head, Twins Research Australia and MyBRISK Centre of Research Excellence in Breast Cancer Risk; Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of Melbourne