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Most people would agree with Jeremy Hunt that isolation and loneliness are bad things and that we should try to make sure that older people (and everyone else) do not suffer from them. So far so good…
It should come as no surprise to anyone that there is a growing crisis in adult social care. Policymakers, practitioners and people using services alike all argue that the current system is fundamentally…
Last year, having recently lost her life partner, 78-year old Miriam* was advised by her children that the family home was now “too big” for her to live in. She sold her property and moved into the home…
Neighbourhood watch groups should apply for care status and provide help for older people to counter Britain’s “uncivilised” attitude to pensioners. As well as looking out for potential burglars and keeping…
The tragic case of 88 year-old Cynthia Thoresen recently made headlines in Queensland. Mrs Thoresen’s sad decline and the extent of her injuries have been comprehensively documented. Despite shocking neglect…
Retirement can be detrimental to both mental and physical health, according to researchers at the Institute of Economic Affairs…
Local shops serve an integral role in the lives of older people as a key part of their social network. Researchers studied…
A new trial has achieved lowered rates of infection in residents and staff, fewer hospitalisations and a significant reduction…
Researchers have found a number of interventions to be successful in preventing elderly people from debilitating falls that…
If Australian governments are serious about raising rates of economic growth, they must reform the tax mix and increase the workforce participation rates of women and older people. Each of these reforms…
Fat people having sex, ugly people having sex, old people having sex. All too readily our culture cringes, shudders, if not gags at the thought. After all, if film and television have taught us anything…
Australian-born men aged over 70 have higher prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels than men of the same age born overseas…
Antibiotics are being prescribed for suspected infections without meeting the criteria for clinical infection, increasing…
Older women who have one standard alcoholic drink a day may be healthier than their teetotalling peers, a new study has found…
Staff in facilities providing low-level care to elderly people need to develop better relationships with their patients…
The Productivity Commission has released the Caring for Older Australian report. Experts respond. Rhonda Nay, Professor of Interdisciplinary Aged Care at La Trobe University gives a general response to…
A new wearable device that predicts which people are more at risk of falls could help prolong the number of years elderly…
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Professor of Law and Ageing, UniSA: Justice and Society, University of South Australia
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Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
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Research Fellow, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, National Ageing Research Institute and Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor Medicine, Geriatrics, University of Virginia
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Emeritus Professor La Trobe University, La Trobe University
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Professor of Economics, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Director of the International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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Assistant Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Adjunct Professor, Leadership Development, Concordia University
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Conjoint Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW
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John Daley is a Friend of The Conversation.
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