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Commonwealth proposes ageing takeover
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in October will consider a Commonwealth takeover of all government-funded aged care programs.
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When the baby boomers turn 70
The past is the present in so many areas of Australia's economy and society. Mining has resume its role as our sugar daddy, property prices are on t
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Something better than a patchwork of services for the disabled
If you spend a minute talking to people with a disability of their families and carers, you will soon realise that the millions of Australians affec
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The real cost of a long life
Joyce Clifford would once have been referred to as a miracle of modern medicine. Now aged 84, the Brisbane great-grandmother had her first knee repl
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Nation building plan to offset ageing population - Kevin Rudd
KEVIN Rudd has warned of economic disaster from a looming wave of retirees unless Australia embraces a decade of nation building and workforce refor
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Surge in high-level community care places
Commonwealth funded high care packages increased signigicantly in 2007-08, according to a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
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Aged care shake-up given thumbs up by providers
Aged care providers have backed most of the proposals put forward by the Rudd government's health commission to deal with the looming bed shortage c
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Nation faces 'surge’ in dementia
An extra 150,000 paid and unpaid carers will be needed over the next 20 years to look after Australia’s rising tide of dementia sufferers, a report has warned.
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The time of our longer lives
It is a flawless spring day and Paul Wong, 88, is visiting his mother. Yes, his mother. Tsao Yuet Kiu Wong is reputed to be 112 years old, perhaps the oldest person in Australia.
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Dementia: facing the epidemic
The time has long passed for band-aiding the health and care system to address the dementia epidemic, writes Alzheimer's Australia CEO Glenn Rees.
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