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Walking an extra 4,300 steps or about 40 minutes every day can mean less days in hospital for older Australians and reduced risk of cancer, new research shows.
Topics: health, exercise-and-fitness, lifestyle-and-leisure, cancer, older-people, sydney-2000, newcastle-2300
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A Gold Coast couple celebrating 75 years together reveals their secret to a lasting relationship — not having kids.
Topics: emotions, marriage, older-people, people, arundel-4214
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When West Australian farmer Mal Beeck retired he needed something to keep him busy. Vintage tractors are now a big part of his life. Read more
Topics: farm-labour, agricultural-machinery, older-people, katanning-6317
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Rorting might happen once the private sector takes over some public sector elderly and disability services in South Australia, a union warns.
Topics: health-policy, older-people, disabilities, states-and-territories, health, government-and-politics, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA Western Australian farmer shows of his museum-like shed display of vintage tractors.
Topics: agricultural-machinery, rural, human-interest, offbeat, community-and-society, history, older-people, lifestyle-and-leisure, katanning-6317
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Do you feel like the older you get the less time you have? Apparently the feeling is real — but it is all in your head.
Topics: stress, older-people, psychology, adelaide-5000
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West Australian farmer Trevor McIntosh ended up with a shearing team with an average age of 75 when his regular shearer pulled out at the last minute. Shearer Neville Schleicher filled the breach but at 66 he was the baby of the team. Read more
Topics: sheep-production, farm-labour, older-people, denmark-6333
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| UpdatedThere are concerns that exploitation and abuse of older people is being allowed to flourish in NSW because the state is delaying introducing safeguards to protect the rights of the elderly.
Topics: older-people, health, aged-care, community-and-society, health-policy, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedAn octogenarian yogi volunteers her time to teach yoga practices and techniques to mental health patients at Cairns Hospital.
Topics: mental-health, meditation-and-prayer, older-people, volunteers, women, cairns-4870
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A Queensland dentist has warned the state is setting itself up for an 'overwhelming burden of disease in the aged population'.
Topics: dental, aged-care, health, older-people, community-and-society, healthcare-facilities, rockhampton-4700
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A statewide research project aimed at providing more support to grandparents who care for their grandchildren full-time is launched in Western Australia — and for Lorraine Fitzgibbons, it could make a big difference.
Topics: family-and-children, carers, older-people, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedOlder Australians living in nursing homes have some of the highest rates of depression and anxiety, but most are excluded from Medicare-funded psychological treatment available to the wider community, aged care advocates say.
Topics: depression, health, federal-government, mental-health, older-people, australia
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| UpdatedSome centenarians share their secrets to a long and happy life, as a study finds people aged 100 years and older need less home care than "near centenarians" aged 95 to 99.
Topics: aged-care, community-and-society, older-people, health, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedCrossbench senator David Leyonhjelm says people who receive pension payments should not be proud because it shows they are poor, a day after the Government tightened the assets test for 300,000 older Australians.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, welfare, community-and-society, older-people, poverty, australia
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A WWII veteran, who survived the Thai-Burma Railway, a hell ship, and being torpedoed, turns 100.
Topics: human-interest, world-war-2, history, older-people, community-and-society, albany-6330, japan, thailand
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| UpdatedAt 100, Cyril Barwick is still behind the wheel of his beloved blue van — a vehicle he has driven for more than 30 years.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, older-people, offbeat, willow-tree-2339
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| UpdatedA centenarian scientist will remain on campus at a Perth university after the institution reverses a decision to make him work from home because he presents a health and safety risk.
Topics: university-and-further-education, ecology, older-people, community-and-society, mount-lawley-6050, joondalup-6027, maylands-6051
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| UpdatedSouth Australian retirees Stan and Carole Thomson are holidaying for free, using housesitting jobs to travel to the places they have always wanted to visit.
Topics: human-interest, lifestyle-and-leisure, house-and-home, animals, older-people, travel-and-tourism, mount-gambier-5290, australia, inverloch-3996, bright-3741, daylesford-3460, berri-5343, batemans-bay-2536, moruya-2537
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Topics: marriage, aged-care, older-people, orange-2800
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Married for six decades but forced to live apart for six years, an elderly couple has been reunited and is now able to live in the same room due to a renovations at a nursing home.
Topics: older-people, marriage, community-and-society, human-interest, people, aged-care, orange-2800