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Coffee first, then care
Diana Bagnall
8 October 2021
Buurtzorg provides more humane care for elderly people at a lower cost. So what’s stopping it from being adopted in Australia?
Books & Arts
Holding on
Brian McFarlane
3 June 2021
Three films tackle dementia is very different ways
National Affairs
The end of the population pyramid
John Quiggin
1 June 2021
Fears about a declining birthrate reflect a twentieth-century view of how the economy works
National Affairs
If the future is more super, then the future is greater inequality
Mike Steketee
5 February 2021
The superannuation guarantee shouldn’t rise until the system is made fairer
Essays & Reportage
What happens when we treat aged care residents as “consumers”
Sarah Holland-Batt
14 September 2020
Decades of misguided policy sowed the seeds of a human rights disaster
National Affairs
Why I changed my mind about super
Saul Eslake
11 September 2020
How one economist came to have doubts about the plan to lift the compulsory superannuation contribution rate
National Affairs
The weakest Covid-19 link
Kathy Eagar
7 August 2020
Australia’s aged care homes were a disaster waiting to happen
Essays & Reportage
Magical thinking and the aged care crisis
Sarah Holland-Batt
5 May 2020
Why do we keeping rediscovering, then forgetting, the diabolical state of aged care?
National Affairs
Millennial madness
John Quiggin
10 February 2020
Which generation has the biggest stake in the absurdities of the generation game?
National Affairs
Tides of opinion
John Quiggin
16 December 2019
Generational divides don’t explain much, though attitudes to climate and culture seem to be exceptions
Books & Arts
Johnny Cash’s comma
Andrew Ford
4 December 2019
Music
| Late-career singers can do what young singers can’t
Essays & Reportage
Is Goodstart just the beginning?
Mike Steketee
22 October 2019
Can a successful social investment model be used in aged care and elsewhere?
Books & Arts
Late-onset ageing
Brett Evans
24 September 2019
Books
| Ageing can be a better experience, but we might need to face a few unpleasant facts
National Affairs
Is demography still working against the Coalition?
Ian Watson
14 September 2018
The short answer is yes, but the long answer is more complicated
Books & Arts
The war inside our bodies
Sara Dowse
22 May 2018
Books
| Does the wellness movement ignore important truths (and take up too much of our time)?
National Affairs
Not so super
Brendan Coates, John Daley & Trent Wiltshire
29 April 2018
Increasing the Superannuation Guarantee will help the rich at the expense of the poor
National Affairs
Aged care’s demographic challenge
Lesley Russell
27 November 2017
The growing dominance of private providers has led to lower standards of care. But will baby boomers put up with it?
Books & Arts
A shrewd appraisal of sameness and difference
Frank Bongiorno
25 November 2017
A new book takes a nuanced look at ageing gay men and the world they live in
Books & Arts
Hundred-year lives
Brett Evans
23 March 2017
Books
| Middle age is expanding, which is mostly good news
National Affairs
Ageing parents: the next wave of temporary migrants?
Peter Mares
25 October 2016
Changes to migration rules over the past two decades have made it progressively harder to bring ageing parents to Australia. But does a new policy – promised in the heat of…
National Affairs
Time’s up for ageing alarmists
John Quiggin
4 October 2016
Mistaken fears about an “ageing population” have stopped us from considering how best to respond to the prospect of longer, healthier lives
Essays & Reportage
The right to be old
Melanie Joosten
17 June 2016
Ageing needs to be treated as a state of living rather than failing, argues
Melanie Joosten
in this extract from her new book
National Affairs
Is welfare sustainable?
Peter Whiteford
26 November 2015
Senior federal government ministers say that welfare spending is growing too quickly.
Peter Whiteford
sifts the figures and comes to a different conclusion
From the archive
What matters in the end
Frank Bowden
17 December 2014
Atul Gawande has written an important book about the limits of medicine
Books & Arts
Alzheimer unease
David Le Couteur
28 July 2014
Why do so many dementia researchers hold to a single theory so fervently? An unsettling new book throws light on entrenched beliefs, writes
David Le Couteur
National Affairs
Work till you drop?
Peter Whiteford
28 April 2014
Would increasing the pension age be fair and effective?
Peter Whiteford
looks at the Australian and international evidence
National Affairs
Two indexes, two very different impacts on pensions
Daniel Nethery
17 April 2014
If the rumours are correct, the federal government is considering a complex but far-reaching change to pension payments, writes
Daniel Nethery
Books & Arts
The ageless question
Sara Dowse
29 November 2013
Sara Dowse
reviews three new books about what it means to grow old
National Affairs
Government by the old, for the old?
Rodney Tiffen
27 November 2013
The politics of the ageing electorate is complicating government responses to the ageing society, writes
Rodney Tiffen
National Affairs
The rising costs of the great Australian dream
Peter Mares
28 August 2013
Without a change in policies, an ageing population is likely to reduce housing affordability and increase inequality, writes
Peter Mares
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