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    Age pensioners and superannuation
    ( 1987-04) Graycar, Adam
    The Older Persons Advisory Committee has expressed great concern at the erosion of indexation benefits for age pensioners. The discussion will be greatly enhanced by releasing current statistics which show a) that households headed by an older person (aged 65 or over) have less income than households headed by younger people and b) the number of age pensioners in Australia has declined and the proportion of Gross Domestic Product spent on age pensions has declined.
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    Ageing and society
    ( 1987-03) Graycar, Adam
    The 'graying' of Australia's population has been a regular topic of discussion in government, demographic, health and social service circles in recent years. It has been noted carefully because shifts in population structure, particularly increases in the so-called 'dependent' populations have serious implications for resource allocation in areas of income support and service provision. As we look to the future in South Australia, over the next 25 years South Australia's population will increase by 20 per cent; the population aged 65 and over by 40 per cent; the population aged 75 and over by 118 per cent and the over 85s by 147 per cent. Every day in Australia our elderly population increases by 104.
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    Ageing rapidly: fiction or fact?
    ( 1987-08) Graycar, Adam
    All too often fiction and fact are confused when dealing with the complex area of ageing. Some misconceptions are highlighted.
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    Basis for genuine consultation in aged care services
    ( 1987-11) Graycar, Adam
    We have and will continue to have two older populations each defined as old. One population, (comprising people roughly aged over sixty-five and under seventy-five) is deemed too old for the paid labour force, and the other (comprising people aged seventy-five and over) is deemed too old to participate physically and emotionally in mainstream society. We are facing two explosions - an explosion of perceived uselessness and an explosion of care. The traditional care providing organisations - governments, community agencies and families are all under great pressure. Any crisis of care can be addressed only by a partnership of government, community agencies, and families. The first step is to produce a genuine basis of consultation - not only for the provider but also for the consumers - those elderly people that make up our client group.
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    The challenge of ageing
    ( 1988-06) Graycar, Adam
    In 1987 our 'aged' population increased by around 55,000, or by 152 per day. The consequence of this is that whereas at the beginning of this century of all the people aged 65 and over one quarter were aged 75 and over; today of all the people 65 and over about one third are aged 75 and over but by the end of this century almost one half will be aged 75 and over. We are not seeing rapid ageing, but a shift in the age structure. The ramifications of this are significant and the challenges quite monumental.
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    Demography - is it just a numbers game?
    ( 1987-11) Graycar, Adam
    The vast majority of major policy or planning issues facing contemporary Australia have a demographic dimension. A thorough knowledge of this population dimension would not only assist in understanding wider societal forces and processes but is also of substantial interest for its own sake. It is not only concerned with the size distribution and structure of populations but also with the processes whereby they undergo change. Many demographic changes can be readily anticipated, such as numbers of people aged 5 and over, or the number of school entrants. However, there are questions which we cannot be so certain of. The nunber of people who will migrate to Australia and and how many children will be born are such questions.
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    Developing policies for the ageing : the importance of family indicators
    ( 1987-06) Graycar, Adam
    At an Institute of Family Studies conference in 1984 it was argued that the major indicators of family well being were access to and receipt of tangible resources, effective services, and close companionship. The first is best delivered by government because only government really has the resources to meet the non-market income maintenance needs evident in modern societies. The second, effective services comes largely through an incredibly complex network of government service agencies, community agencies, and commercial services and this mix of government and non-government, community and commercial, shapes our service systems. The third, companionship and family support cannot be delivered bureaucratically, and analysis here gets us into the realm of informal services, family care systems, informal supports, and all the things that come with kinship and friendship networks.
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    Developments in ageing
    ( 1987-05) Graycar, Adam
    Significant and monumental changes have taken place in the recent past in the structure of Australia's population, in the needs exhibited and expressed by the population, and in the methods used to attend to those needs. Australia's population is ageing slowly. Those aged 65 and over, who today comprise 9.8 per cent of the population, will by the year 2001, comprise about 11.0 per cent, and by 2021 about 14.0 per cent. A dozen wealthy countries in Europe have elderly populations right now, much larger than those projected for Australia even fifty years down the line.
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    The right to shelter - elderly people in residential care
    ( 1987-09) Graycar, Adam ; Sumner, Ros
    The looming explosion in social care poses formidable challenges for policy makers in the gerontological area. Our residential care system which provides sheltered and supported accommodation for disabled people both young and old, is on the verge of significant and monumental change. The Commonwealth Department of Community Services has made considerable moves in identifying the strengths and weaknesses in the present system, in gathering vast amounts of data, and in considering sympathetically and humanely how people requiring residential care can live with dignity and have services appropriate to their needs.