Australia, like many countries, is experiencing population ageing, with the number of individuals aged 65 years and over projected to increase from 3.7 million in 2016 to more than 10 million by 2066.  In response to this demographic shift, we ...

Australia just topped the U.S. News & World Report's Best Countries ranking for a comfortable retirement because of our healthcare programs, pensions, and cost of living. Yet, the stark reality is that simultaneous population ageing and decline will change this ...

Australia might have just recorded a $19 billion surplus, but the Treasurer has warned that the cost of servicing debt and an ageing population is predicted to balloon government spending in the decades to come. The Intergenerational Report, to be ...

A gerontology professor has pressed for more research to improve health outcomes for female Australians later in life. Older women are at an increased risk of facing limited financial resources, living alone, and frailty and social isolation. Gerontology Professor Colette Browning ...

One of Australia's major aged care providers has built a new apartment complex that aims to promote longevity for its residents. Uniting's McRae-McMahon Place is a 65-apartment complex in Sydney with design elements that may boost social connectedness, including a ...

What does it mean to age as a woman? Radio broadcaster and writer Jacinta Parsons's latest book, A question of age, dives into controversial topics such as the image of women in society and how their body and mind changes ...

It’s a while now since Dan Buettner introduced us to “blue zones" - places around the world wherepeople live longer than the rest of us. Longer lives that are also healthier and happier. These blue zones turn out to be ...

It has been over 30 years since female hysteria was unlisted as an official diagnosis, and we have learned very little about women's health since then, according to researcher, neurologist and author Professor Cassandra Szoeke. "When people say 'women's health' ...

A landmark study has found that slowing or reversing the ageing process is unlikely to be possible for humans. Researchers from 14 different countries set out to test the ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis, which says that a species has ...

Jennie Cox has always jumped on any chance to learn. At 81, she’s just completed a degree at Murdoch University and has already enrolled for a postgraduate course. A former nurse from Perth, Cox studied for a nursing degree as ...