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Population ageing is a global phenomenon whose impact is only now being fully recognised and understood. Increased longevity, aspirations for improved quality of life, advances in health and better welfare provision are generally accepted as parts of a variable success story that will demand ongoing action with the expectation that populations worldwide will live to increasingly older ages (OECD 2015; WHO 2015). Governments around the world are now grappling with the significant social and economic challenges raised by population ageing: some of the notable policy responses in Australia to date include encouraging people to stay in the labour force beyond the traditional retirement age of 65 years, increasing the pension eligibility age, promoting healthy and active ageing, supporting older people to ‘age in place’ and the introduction of consumer-directed care and user-pays into aged care services.
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O’Loughlin, K., Kendig, H., Browning, C. (2017). Challenges and Opportunities for an Ageing Australia. In: O’Loughlin, K., Browning, C., Kendig, H. (eds) Ageing in Australia. International Perspectives on Aging, vol 16. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6466-6_1
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