A new study by CEPAR researchers Dr Kim Kiely, Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey, and Professor Carol Jagger, and UNSW researcher Dr Richard Tawiah, offers new evidence on social disparities in disability-free life expectancy trends in Australia by examining how these trends have varied by gender, socioeconomic position and severity of disability.
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While changes in the 2021 Federal Budget make the Pension Loans Scheme more attractive for senior homeowners, more can be done, write CEPAR Chief Investigator Professor Hazel Bateman, CEPAR Associate Investigator Dr Katja Hanewald and Honours student Katie Sun.
A new study by CEPAR Research Fellow Dr Craig Sinclair and colleagues has found that 70% of Australians aged 65+ are sidestepping the opportunity to control their end-of-life care, with men less likely to plan than women.
Webinar recording: The Multifaceted Effects of the Pandemic and the Lockdown Measures on EU Citizens
Over 160 pension experts and researchers from around the world registered to participate in a webinar on 'The Multifaceted Effects of the Pandemic and the Lockdown Measures on EU Citizens' by Professor Dr Axel Börsch-Supan, Director of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging at the Max Planck Institute for Law and Social Policy.
by Associate Professor Jongsay Yong, Dr Ou Yang , Professor Anthony Scott and Professor Yuting Zhang.
Scientists led by CEPAR Associate Investigator A/Professor Ruth Peters begin a pilot trial bringing together older adults and preschoolers to assess the mutual health benefits of intergenerational activity, such as reducing frailty and depression.
This time last year the Australian economy was feeling the full impact of COVID-19 in terms of businesses closing and in relation to changed working and caring arrangements. Both younger workers in their twenties and older workers over 60 were hit the hardest, with workers over the age of 70 being most severely affected.
CEPAR Chief Investigator Professor Warwick McKibbin and colleagues show in this The Conversation article how a refashioned JobMaker II scheme without the discrimination implicit in age targeting, other genuinely disadvantaged groups, including low-income women over 35, would pay for itself.
Professor Michael Keane, CEPAR Chief Investigator and ARC Laureate Fellow at UNSW Sydney, has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), in recognition of his distinctive contributions to the field.