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Liz Allen, Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University

Australia has many older people but not enough young people to care for them. What can we do?

As the nation ages, and children make up a smaller proportion of the population, the country is confronted with one of its biggest policy and economic challenges: how do we care for the elderly?

Despite increased focus on the quality and funding of residential aged care in recent years, there’s been insufficient discussion about how we address this complicated problem.

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