Could we divert incontinence products from landfill? Yes – if we tackle social stigma and access to affordable health services, encourage biodegradable products and introduce supportive waste policies
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If we consider suicide rates within age groups, men over 85 are at three times the average risk. We should make sure older men have ways to express when they’re not coping and seek help.
Being age-friendly is not just a matter of responding to the needs of Australia’s ageing population. It will benefit all students and the university as a whole.
They hold financial and political power, yet the climate movement is currently dominated by youngsters.
Kenya faces the dilemma of an ageing workforce. The problem can be addressed by developing a strategic workforce plan for employees.
Instead of isolating and excluding older Australians, communities that are designed to embrace the growing numbers of Australians over 65 will have all kinds of benefits for Australia.
Teaching robots to care for us in old age will be child’s play.
There is a brighter side to caregiving. It can improve work performance and morale.
The promotion of home ownership as a way of funding care in later life is part of a broader policy trend toward making people individually responsible for the opportunities they have.
Perhaps communication robots can one day help people express their views on having a robot in their life.
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Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor in User Research, Okayama University
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Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, Unizik Business School, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management, University of Bath
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Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Healthy Ageing, Australian Catholic University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer (Nursing), Western Sydney University
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Professor in Nursing, Western Sydney University
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Casual Academic, The University of Queensland
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Collaborator, Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer, Southern Cross University
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Professor & Director, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer in Computer Science, Aberystwyth University