The aim of this paper is to examine the consequences of ageing on urban development and housing in South Australia.

The ageing society has been attracting the attention of policy-makers in Australia and in many other countries. This paper considers the labour market for the traditional trades in Australia over the next 40 years and investigates whether the ageing society will pose a workforce problem. The broad conclusion is that the ageing society will significantly...

Medicare is becoming an anachronism. The demographic and medical realities of the twenty-first century mean that Medicare can no longer provide every citizen with 'free' access to all the new medicine. Without reform, healthcare in the 2040s is likely to be increasingly about rationing. Jeremy Sammut outlines the combined impact of demographic trends toward ageing...

One of the most striking features of the modern world is its changing demographic profile. In almost any policy arena, the issue of demographic change (or ageing) sits alongside globalisation, climate change and the knowledge revolution as areas which are transforming societies, including the ways in which we organise and go about our work activities...

In making dementia a National Health Priority, the Australian Government has recognised dementia as one of the biggest health problems facing Australia now and into the future. It has not been widely understood that dementia is also a major health problem for Indigenous people. Recent research in the Kimberley region suggests that the prevalence rates...