Aged care in Australia: conflicting issues
Aged care in Australia: conflicting issues
Date
1984-03
Authors
Graycar, Adam
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Abstract
For conventional reasons those aged 65 or more are regarded as constituting our population of elderly persons. 9.7% of Australia's population is aged 65 or more. Most are not in the labour force and thus rely for their security on past investments; government pensions and benefits and services; and their families. Some are fortunate in having a combination of all three, others survive on one or two of these. The population is ageing slowly and the implications of this for social security and health and social service provision have caused alarm in some government circles.
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Speech presented to the National Council on the Ageing seminar "1984 and beyond", Washington DC, April 4-7 1984, by Adam Graycar, Director, Social Welfare Research Centre, University of New South Wales. This speech is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Aged Care,
Ageing,
Elderly people,
Accommodation for the elderly,
Ageing population