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Overcrowded homes and a lack of healthcare is forcing many people to move from remote communities to Darwin.

Raise Your Voice is an invitation to older people to be heard as part of Compass’s World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2025.

A unique, community-led health program run by senior Yolŋu women in Galiwin’ku, Arnhem Land, is having promising resu...

Victorians all throughout the state have been hard at work, reflecting on their lives and creating their own Beyond A...

Seniors Rights Victoria and COTA Victoria have launched the Beyond Age project, one that asks members of the communit...

Would you let a furry friend from the future into your home?

For years, Dan Collins looked after his mother Ros as she got older. But two years ago he acquired a permanent brain...

A group of home care provider CEOs has warned that a proposed new funding model will lead to older Australians going ...

The city of Melbourne wants to know how they can support you to age well.Consultation closes 5pm Monday 26 May.

Modern older lives are diverse, yet older people have become too easily pigeonholed.

This thought-provoking editorial from the Hawkesbury Post calls the issue of older women’s homelessness more than a p...

A new pilot program is the first to use pets to help build connections between young and older adults to reduce lonel...

A first of its kind dental pilot could be the blueprint a government seniors' dental scheme.

Around three million Australians are unpaid carers but often feel "overlooked" despite their efforts to help another ...

CBA has been ordered to compensate an elderly couple after their daughter made unauthorised withdrawals from their ba...

Jan Lawlor, 64, is not your typical fast-food worker.

A parliamentary inquiry has highlighted the challenges faced by support services to gather and collate data on the pe...

When Valerie and Paul Brinklow entrusted their son, Blake Adrian Brinklow, with managing their finances, they expecte...

When Mavis Rofe, an 86 year-old lollipop lady, was sacked over concerns about her physical ability, she took the fi...

The peak body for financial advisers has raised concerns that the national complaints authority is overstepping its b...

Everyone is invited to fill in this survey about pets in aged care and how they might improve the lives of residents ...

As the major political parties focus on attracting first-home buyers, older Australians, particularly women over 55, ...

When it comes to planning for the future, they are two of the most important legal safeguards against elder abuse.

A joint report has found most of the Indigenous community health sector needs urgent infrastructure funding.

Help shape and reform the laws about guardianship in Western Australia.

There's a push for a national plan to tackle ageism, with the majority of people over 50 demanding better support ahe...

The "Old is Beautiful" workshop used everyday, older people in a campaign to change the way we think about beauty and...

All retirement village operators in the ACT will be required to have an elder abuse strategy in place from 27 May.

The Cairns regional Council proposes a new law that could see a huge increase in rates for some residents of retireme...

The peak body that represents and advocates for older Australians has welcomed a new direction from the UN.