Strand Leader: Kaarin Anstey
Investigating cognitive ageing; issues in choice and decision-making; and extensions to the life-cycle paradigm, studies in this stream reveal the vital psychological and physiological causes behind the process of cognitive decline, and how it might be slowed. Life-cycle models provide a frame within which errors in choice might be identified and their severity assessed. And choice studies provide new knowledge about how choices are actually made.
Projects:
- Sensory Ageing and Interaction with Cognition
- Older Drivers, Transport and Policy
- Cognitive Training for Everyday Life
- The Impact of Dietary Intake on Maintenance of Cognitive Health
- The Social and Economic Impact of Cognitive Ageing
- Gender, Contextual and Biological Influences on Cognitive Decline in Older Adults
- Effects of Taxes and Safety Net Pensions on Life-Cycle Labour Supply, Savings and Human Campital: The Case of Australia
- Joint Labour Supply and Retirement of Australian Couples
- Complex Financial Decisions for Retirement Savings
- Housing in an Ageing Society: A Simulation Study
- Macroeconomic Implications of Australian Housing Policies
- Optimal Consumption and Housing Equity over a Life-Cycle
- Investment in Health over the Life-Cycle
- Evaluating Consumers' Choices of Medicare Part D Plans
For more information on individual projects and resesarch outcomes, please see the CEPAR Annual Reports.