The sex industry should consider older adults when they develop new products and help to counter ageist stereotypes about the sexuality of older people while they’re at it, a medical ethicist has argued in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Though older people experience physical changes that can interfere with sexual functioning as they grow...
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Last week, the royal commission heard the federal government failed to properly prepare the aged care sector for the one-in-a-hundred-year COVID-19 pandemic. “Neither the Commonwealth Department of Health nor the aged care regulator developed a COVID-19 plan specifically for the aged care sector,” said counsel assisting the royal commission, Peter Rozen QC. The lack of...
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Our youth, full-time employees and business seem to be the big winners in the budget with job subsidies designed to hire our unemployed young, tax cuts for employees and huge investment tax incentives for businesses. But what about older Australians? Where does this budget leave them?
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