It should be no surprise that older adults are the largest users of prescription medication. After all, older adults are far more likely to have chronic health conditions than are younger people. It follows…
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Research tells us that women’s sexual functioning declines after midlife, manifested by reductions in arousal and orgasm, and increases in sexual pain. This is linked to reports of reduced sexual activity…
Two recent complementary reports on long-term care for older people – one from the Demos Commission on Residential Care, chaired by former care minister Paul Burstow, and the other from the King’s Fund…
Older Australians are being prescribed pain relievers for an average of five years when clinical guidelines recommend short-term…
Care homes for older people are once again under scrutiny following a damning investigation on BBC Panorama’s Behind Closed Doors: Care Exposed. But if you really want to understand some of the complexities…
Loneliness in older people is a serious issue but when I visited HenPower, a lottery-funded project in the north east that puts older people and hens together, I admit I had been expecting another worthy…
Britons have been warned that they must save six times more for their pension or face poverty. The message is that it’s time to embrace deferred gratification and start saving. The average pension pot…
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…
Despite a big overhaul in the way care for the elderly will be funded, there are still fears that it isn’t enough and we’re surely “heading towards disaster”. The government is keen to emphasise the importance…
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Clinical Professor of Gerontology and Co-Director LeadingAge LTSS Center; Recent Mel King Fellow at MIT Co-Lab, UMass Boston
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Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
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Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer of Gerontology, LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, UMass Boston
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Instructional Associate Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California
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Academic Convenor, Hallmark Ageing Research Initiative, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University
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Visiting Clinical Research Fellow in older people's substance use and mental health, King's College London
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Professor of Healthy Ageing, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University
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Professor of Nursing, Care for Older People, City, University of London
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Research Theme Fellow in Health and Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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PhD Candidate and Research Fellow at the Monash Health [Health and Social Care Unit], Monash University
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Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
