The promotion of home ownership as a way of funding care in later life is part of a broader policy trend toward making people individually responsible for the opportunities they have.
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Selecting immigrants on points is likely to result in them being healthy, or at least healthy enough for them not to put much strain on our exhausted health systems.
Considering all the aspects of life in Australia that are affected by population, it’s remarkable that the nation doesn’t have a national policy on it.
As the population ages, Australia needs a new way of funding aged care. Insurance could be the answer.
Several key aspects of public open space can encourage older people to get out and about. And badly designed and maintained facilities have the opposite effect and can harm their wellbeing.
As our population ages and life expectancy increases so does the need for comprehensive health and care services for older people.
Companies that care about the bottom line will have their attention divided between profit and patients.
When it comes to sexual health, public information has tended to focus on the young. Time for a change.
Nursing is more than just a caring profession, it is also a science.
Too many older people are restricted from receiving state help for their care needs.
Italy is the latest in a line of countries with ageing populations trying to boost proceation through a ‘fertility day’.
Inmates are getting older, which make us think about whether custody is the best option for this group.
Australia lags behind most other developed countries when it comes to the economic and social well-being of people over 60. And the numbers are even more alarming for women.
Millions of people need to be confident that suitable public toilets will be available when they leave their homes. A shortage of such facilities is a serious problem for an ageing population.
Heavy clouds are on the horizon for NHS England – and older people will suffer the worst in this downpour.
The saying goes, with age comes wisdom, but is that really true?
Worries about overpopulation aren’t being felt everywhere.
Community and housing industry leaders agreed a national guideline and a plan to provide basic access features in all new housing by 2020. But this voluntary approach is failing.
Many hidden obstacles confront Australia’s older workers, so what workplace changes can be made to maximise the benefits and reduce the problems of an ageing population?
With a booming life expectancy, there is a need for collective, intergenerational discussion and ideas around how to better design housing in Australia’s communities and cities.
Top contributors
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Professor of Healthy Ageing, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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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
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Associate Professor of Social Science and Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Economy and Society, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in International Social Policy, University of Southampton
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Associate Professor and Discipline Lead Property, Curtin University
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Senior Research Fellow, John Richards Centre for Rural Ageing Research, La Trobe University
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Visiting Professor UNSW, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Sydney
