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Author: Hal Kendig Publisher: ANU Press ISBN: 1760460672 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 339
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This volume provides evidence from many of Australia’s leading scholars from a range of social science disciplines to support policies that address challenges presented by Australia’s ageing population. It builds on presentations made to the 2014 Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. The material is in four parts: Perspectives on AgeingPopulation Ageing: Global, regional and Australian perspectivesImproving Health and WellbeingResponses by Government and Families/Individuals ‘The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia sees this volume as a major contribution to improving our understanding of Australia’s population ageing. Social science research in this area truly underpins our ability as a nation to manage such demographic change, and its consequences for the economy and society. Such knowledge helps ensure that our citizens can live even better lives.’ — Glenn Withers, President, ASSA ‘It is fantastic that Australians are living longer and healthier lives but we need to address these demographic changes.’ — The Hon Joe Hockey MP, 2015 Intergenerational Report
Author: Allan Borowski Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521498203 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 360
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Industrialised countries worldwide have for years been confronting the prospect of a steadily ageing population. This book, first published in 1997, reflects the breadth of research into gerontology and analyses the major themes and issues in the area of ageing and social policy in both an Australian context and from an international comparative perspective. Topics discussed include unemployment, education, and housing for the aged. Added to this is the contemporary influence of multiculturalism and the challenge it poses to policies and programs that must cater for a growing diversity in the ageing population. A special focus is given to the situation of women and Aboriginal Australians and the specific structural disadvantages they face. This book is essential reading for students and policy-makers in sociology, social and public policy, gerontology, and public health.
Author: Hal Kendig Publisher: ANU Press ISBN: 1760460672 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
This volume provides evidence from many of Australia’s leading scholars from a range of social science disciplines to support policies that address challenges presented by Australia’s ageing population. It builds on presentations made to the 2014 Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. The material is in four parts: Perspectives on AgeingPopulation Ageing: Global, regional and Australian perspectivesImproving Health and WellbeingResponses by Government and Families/Individuals ‘The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia sees this volume as a major contribution to improving our understanding of Australia’s population ageing. Social science research in this area truly underpins our ability as a nation to manage such demographic change, and its consequences for the economy and society. Such knowledge helps ensure that our citizens can live even better lives.’ — Glenn Withers, President, ASSA ‘It is fantastic that Australians are living longer and healthier lives but we need to address these demographic changes.’ — The Hon Joe Hockey MP, 2015 Intergenerational Report
Author: Kate O’Loughlin Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1493964666 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 290
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This stimulating volume examines the many faces of Australia’s ageing population, the social and health issues they contend with, and the steps being taken—and many that should be taken—to help ensure a more positive and productive later life. Individual and societal ageing are conceptualized as developmental in nature, socially diverse, and marked by daily life challenges stemming from the country’s economic structures, attitudes, geography, political landscape, and infrastructure. Wide-ranging coverage (e.g., health, inequalities, employment, transportation) assesses options available to older people, and the role of families, employers, service providers, government agencies, and others in promoting or expanding those choices. The book’s double emphasis on challenges in older people’s lives and opportunities for enhancing their quality of life is on clear display as case studies examine policy issues—and propose solutions—in a societal and individual context. Included in the coverage: · Australian developments in ageing: issues and history. · Cultural diversity, health, and ageing. · Indigenous Australians and ageing: responding to diversity in policy and practice. · Enhancing the health and employment participation of older workers. · Housing and the environments of ageing. · Health services and care for older people. The rich examples in Ageing in Australia contain a depth of understanding and evidence for sociologists, gerontologists and psychologists studying ageing, health care professionals providing care to older people, and policy analysts assessing areas for improvement.
Author: John McCallum Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000938735 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 136
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The idea that our society is ageing is a popular source of gloomy predictions for the future. We see today's youth struggling in their mature years to pay for the masses of geriatric baby boomers whose productive years lie far behind. Australia's New Aged shows that this belief is part reality and part myth. While there will be an increase in the proportion of aged people in the next 20 years, this is a temporary phenomenon and it is likely that tomorrow's elderly will quite differently from their parents. Australia's New Aged examines public policy for the aged in the context of an increasingly vocal and active elderly population and cutbacks to health and welfare spending. The authors argue that policy makers have become trapped in a 'social problem' approach to ageing that assumes the elderly are a homogeneous, disadvantaged group with common interests. They examine a range of cases and identify negative consequences of inappropriate assumptions in terms of structural blindness and brutality. They show that this approach is no longer viable and argue that both policy makers and the aged care industry will need to be more sensitive to diversity and more flexible than ever before. Australia's New Aged is essential reading for students, policy makers and anyone working with the aged. John McCallum is Professor of Public Health and Dean of the Faculty of Health at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur and co-editor of Grey Policy (1990). Karin Geiselhart is a journalist previously employed by the Office for the Status of Women in Canberra.
Author: Publisher: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare ISBN: 9781740247320 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 216
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This updated report provides a snapshot on older Australians. It provides insights into where they are living, what they are doing, how healthy they are and what services they are using.
Author: Productivity Commission Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Prospective changes in the demand for and supply of aged care services present a number of challenges, according to a new Productivity Commission Research Paper. The Australian community values older people having access to high quality and cost effective aged care services. This is reflected in current institutional and regulatory arrangements, which give considerable weight to achieving equity of access and a minimum acceptable standard of service quality. A recent Commission Research Paper, Trends in Aged Care Services: Some Implications, builds on earlier work by the Commission in the areas of demographic change, health and aged care. The study finds that the aging of Australia's population will call for the provision of aged care services to a much larger number of people over the next few decades. Services will also need to meet the challenges posed by the increasing diversity of older people in terms of their care needs, preferences and affluence. The paper notes that the provision of aged care services is shaped by centralised planning and administrative processes, extensive government regulation and high levels of public subsidy which limit the capacity to respond to changing demand. There are also concerns that the system is overly fragmented and difficult to access and navigate, reflecting multiple programs combined with the involvement of multiple government departments and agencies across different jurisdictions. Fragmentation impedes improvements to service interfaces and can restrict the aged from understanding which services might best meet their needs. Currently, governments largely determine how many aged care places are provided, where these places are located, the appropriate mix of services, the price of these services and how they are modified in response to changing community expectations. Competition and price play little role in signalling to providers the changing patterns of demand and the need to adjust decision-making accordingly (including the need for new investment). The Commission paper highlights several areas where further analysis could aid the development of an improved framework for aged care.
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Author: Australia. Department of Social Security
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