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One woman involved in our study realised her husband could be at risk of a heart condition. Her knowledge meant he got diagnosed – and had an urgent, life-saving quadruple bypass surgery soon after.
Lives that matter: new novels by Trish Bolton and Graeme Nash defy the stereotypes of older women in fiction.
The stereotype of the old woman is anxious, dependent, useless, and a burden. But my interviews with older women found them contributing to society in myriad ways.
Britain is now desperately short of workers in some sectors. Yet our interviews with 100 women aged 50 and over show how hard it is for them to find secure employment
A new Australian documentary gives voice to the women in urgent need of policy action on housing insecurity and homelessness.
Sadly, the sexual desire of women over 50 is often unrepresented, misrepresented, and shown as comedic in culture – the new Australian film depicts a different reality.
When a homeowning couple splits, it is the woman who is most likely to be forced to rent. Our proposal would help change that.
We measured financial literacy among 589 informal carers that substantially helped an older person make a decision about paying for residential aged care. Less than half were financially literate.
The proportion of 65-year-olds in work is up by about ten percentage points since 2018.
Doctors don’t ‘check you for everything’, but are guided by what you personally would benefit from, based on your age and individual history.
It’s a painful irony that a multi-billion pound industry, purporting to mirror real life is essentially erasing women’s stories from our screens.
A new study finds that women influencers over the age of 50 engage in style activism to combat ageist and sexist fashion and beauty industries.
Many older women are in desperate need of affordable housing where they can age in place securely, with dignity and as part of a community. The siheyuan model offers ways to meet these needs.
High rents and insecurity are constant sources of financial and emotional stress for low-income women. They describe what it’s like struggling to survive and being one step away from being homeless.
Older women have been the fastest-growing group of homeless people in recent years. New research shows about 240,000 women aged 55 or older and another 165,000 women aged 45-54 are at risk.
Childhood, adolescence, pregnancy, menopause, 75+: how your diet should change with each stage of life
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Once you get older, the focus moves to trying not to lose your muscle tissue. So as you age, your protein requirements actually start to go up.
More older Australians are carrying housing debt later in life, or not owning homes at all, but lack suitable alternatives to the family home. The result is lower incomes in retirement.
The ruling suggests there is an enduring disregard for one of the most vulnerable groups in today’s society: older women.
What matters to women as they grow older, as the city’s population changes and urban development continues apace? You don’t know unless you ask them – and they have so much to contribute.
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Adjunct Lecturer, Department of General Practice, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Southern Cross University
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ARC DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in Urbanism, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Research Associate, Women & Work Research Group, Business School, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in GIS and Planning, Griffith University
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Senior Research Fellow, UniSA Business, Adelaide University
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Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland; Syracuse University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Head of Department of Employment Relations & Human Resources, and Professor, Griffith University
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Associate Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Tutor, Curtin University
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Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex