New Ideas in Ageing

Have you ever listened to all the advice about healthy ageing and thought,  it’s all very well to have a diet rich in oily fish and fresh veggies and do all that exercise, but some of us are too busy working or don’t have easy access to affordable fresh foods ? Or maybe you live in an area where there are fewer health services and limited options for social activity.     In this episode, we hear f...

Not so long ago the idea of talking to your phone or your car or your sound system might have been difficult to imagine. Yet for many of us it’s become part of daily life. But what about if that relationship with technology extended to a virtual reality companion?   Professor Jill Bennet  is Lead Investigator of the  Self and Society  research theme at the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute. In this ep...

If you listened to the first episode of this podcast, you will already be familiar with  Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey  - who introduced us to this whole big topic of ageing. In this episode we narrow down and focus on a subject on which Professor Anstey is extremely eminent and that is dementia. In fact, she’s the first Australian academic to be appointed to the  World Dementia Council . Kaari...

Where is home for you? Do you live alone or with your partner in a house or an apartment? Do you live with family members or with your adult children or perhaps even your own parents?  In this episode,  Dr Edgar Liu  will share insights about the kind of homes and households we live in and how they can influence the way we live more broadly as well as how that influences our experience as we grow...

Have you ever crossed your fingers and thought to yourself that advances in science are going to transform, in a good way, your experience of growing older? In this episode we hear from biomedical engineering expert  Professor Nigel Lovell  and explore how technology - if appropriately co-designed - could transform ageing as an experience for all of us.   Want to know more?  For the latest news an...

If you’re over 50 - or as some research shows, even over 40 - and looking for work, there’s a good chance you’ve come up against some form of ageism - and it might have shocked you.  Research shows that intergenerational workplaces - those with a mix of ages among the workers - are not only highly effective and productive, but everyone likes them.  Why then, aren’t they more common?  In this episo...

Every living person around the world has one thing in common: we are all ageing . If you are someone who has always thought about ageing as a health and medical issue, or maybe an economic issue and a ‘problem’ that needs to be solved, then some of the topics we’re discussing in this podcast series might come as a bit of a surprise, and hopefully in a good way. In this episode, we hear from  Profe...