• Fear of the future

    Alastair Comery     |      February 7, 2024

    Fear of ageing is really a fear of the unknown – and modern society is making things worse.

  • Identifying risky drugs for older people

    Open Forum     |      February 6, 2024

    Australian researchers have developed a list of 16 potentially dangerous medications used in healthcare for older people and suggested a range of safer alternatives.

  • Are friends electric?

    Hamid Laga     |      October 30, 2023

    Technology firms have been insisting that virtual reality is the next big thing for a decade with little success, so could targeting the technology at lonely older people succeed where it has so conspicuously failed with gamers, workers and younger generations?

  • Picturing loneliness in aged care

    Barbara Barbosa Neves     |      October 13, 2023

    Gerontology tends to offer a biomedical understanding of growing old but the arts and social sciences can look at cultural dimensions to understand ageing beyond “biological decline”.

  • Changing the conversation on ageing and aged care

    Lee Fay Low     |      October 9, 2023

    A change in how Australians view ageing could help the nation embrace the opportunities that can come with getting older alongside a franker conversation about the inevitable rise in costs of aged care.

  • Empowering older workers

    Sharifah Rose Ee     |      October 4, 2023

    Australia must embrace new ideas to empower older employees to find their groove and stay relevant in an ever-changing workplace and can learn from its Asian neighbours such as Malaysia and Singapore.

  • Homesick for ourselves – the hidden grief of ageing

    Carol Lefevre     |      September 27, 2023

    Old age sets us the challenge of maintaining balance in the present, while managing the remembered past – with all its joys and griefs – and coming to terms with the future.

  • How long can Australians live?

    Open Forum     |      July 30, 2023

    A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) explores trends in Australia’s increasing life expectancy and other measures of longevity such as maximum age of death.

  • How old are you on the inside?

    Ye Ella Tian     |      April 29, 2023

    The biological age of a person’s brain and body could be routinely measured in the doctor’s clinic to identify people at risk of chronic disease and enable early lifestyle adjustments and medications.

  • Staying connected

    Maddie Massy-Westropp     |      November 2, 2022

    Social interaction doesn’t just make us happy, it helps to slow down the ageing of the brain according to a new study by the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at UNSW Sydney.

  • Always look on the bright side of life

    Open Forum     |      April 3, 2022

    While our mental performance does decline as we age, psychologists have found that older people are better at keeping a positive attitude in stressful conditions.

  • 3 keys to healthy ageing

    Open Forum     |      August 17, 2021

    A spot of sunshine, a love of nature, and a desire to make a difference – it’s a simple combination, but together, these three elements could be key to improving physical activity, health, and wellbeing of older Australians.