The National Aged Care Data Clearinghouse is an independent and centralised repository of national aged care data. The Data Clearinghouse was developed to provide aged care data to a range of stakeholders including policy makers, researchers, service providers and consumers.

This paper recommends more public discussion, including an education campaign, about the limits of health care as death approaches and the need to focus on end-of-life care. Overview This report is about how, where and with whom we die. The baby boomers are growing old, and in the next 25 years the number of Australians...

Explores the experiences of menopause for professional women as part of a broader appreciation of health and well-being in later life. Executive summary This report presents the key findings and recommendations of a research project entitled Women, Work and the Menopause: Releasing the Potential of Older Professional Women. Menopause is a ‘silent issue’ for most...

This project examined older people’s homelessness in Australia, with a particular focus on the experience of becoming homeless for the first time in later life. This research project drew on individual client case records and interviews with professionals working in the Assistance with Care and Housing for the Aged (ACHA) program. The program is designed...

Background: Life expectancy is improving and birth rates slowing, causing an increase in the population over 65 years of age. As a result of different lifetime exposures to risk factors causing disease manifestations, and medication use, this age group is a very heterozygous age group. Adequate nutrition is essential for good health at all ages...