While Australia's ageing population is rapidly growing in number, new research suggests politicians have found the key to longevity as they are outliving the public by an average of seven years. The QUT and Oxford University study analysed data of ...
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Call for more humane media portrayal of older people: podcast
Older people are being portrayed as being in ill-health, victims, or being a burden on society in the Australian media, prompting researchers to call for changes in how society thinks about ageing. A new QUT study, 'Visibility and invisibility in ...
More »Aged care advocate reflects on loss and grief: podcast
Sarah Holland-Batt's latest book The Jaguar contains an intimate collection of poems about the decline of her father and the impact grief has had on her. "It's a reckoning with the changes that someone can go through over the course ...
More »Rethinking companionship for older people – kookaburras, kangaroos and lizards as pets
The fulfilment of having a pet doesn't necessarily mean owning a cat or dog, a new survey has found. Four scientists surveyed over 100 community-dwelling people aged 50 and 92 to define the value of pets and wildlife in their ...
More »Nurses don’t expect to be thanked but deserve to be: campaign
Dear nurse, Thank you. That’s the message at the heart of a new video tribute created by the Queensland University of Technology. Released to coincide with the 40-year anniversary of QUT’s School of Nursing, the video thanks the nurses it ...
More »Call for more study on ageing in uni courses
From dementia to palliative care, the ageing population will present myriad issues for the health system. Darragh O Keeffe asks nurse educators how they are preparing the future workforce to meet the challenge. Whether you are a nursing, medical or ...
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