How to give gifts

I think of Iris every time I put my bangle on. She gave it to me six years ago when I was recovering from cancer surgery.

Homeless, houseless, or hope-less?

McDormand’s powerful performance as the widowed Fern shines a light on homelessness and the working poor. But how accurately does it convey the experience of older women who lack housing security?

A Fortune-Teller Told Me

This is a poetic tale of a year of slow learning through slow travel ...

‘The Super Age’

Congratulations to Bradley Schurman for his pragmatic, thought provoking overview of ‘The super Age’ – this time in history when there are more older citizens than ever – but only one in seven companies is actively responding to this growing consumer force.

Flesh after 50: The gains of age

Did you hear the tale of the photographer, the gynaecologist and the art curator? Probably not, so it’s about time that you did. Earlier this year I was privileged to visit an exhibition which resulted from the collaboration between these three remarkable women. Titled Flesh after Fifty, it all started with Martha Hickey, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, at the University of Melbourne. Martha was frustrated that she couldn’t ‘get through’ on the importance and meaning of menopause.

Dr. Josh Funder

Meet Josh whose mid-life crisis is solving housing shortages for older women. It’s a Not for Profit venture.

Let’s talk about – Invisibility

For the past 20 years David Donnelly has been asking baby boomers what they think, want and are most concerned about. Life satisfaction looms large. Donnelly’s social research consultancy organisation, instinct and reason, brings organisations to the marketplace, advising how to sell and at what price.

What the numbers tell us: Mature mammas rock the world as well as the cradle

Population Shock and the economic pie

Abul Rizvi is a retired academic living in Australia’s national capital, Canberra. He’s an expert in population ageing. But more than this, he is a hands-on practitioner, having actively managed Australia’s migration program between 1995-2007.

To say he knows a thing or two about population is an understatement.

Happily for the rest of us, he has distilled his nearly 30 years of experience and research into an 80-page volume, Population Shock.

Forever homes overtake retirement villages: Tech and co-design are the backbone