4914.0.55.001 - Newsletter: Age Matters, Apr 2003  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 24/04/2003   
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RECOMMENDED READING

The Policy-makers guide to population ageing: key concepts and issues
Jackson, N. 2001, The policy-maker's guide to population ageing: key concepts and issues, Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra.

This 'toolkit', a compendium of concepts and specifically related to population ageing, is especially written for policy-makers, advisers and analysts. This policy research paper is available at http://www.facs.gov.au

The Health Expectancies of Older Australians
Demography Program, Australian National University


Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics surveys of 1981, 1988, 1993 and 1998 this paper presents estimates of health expectancies of the states Disability-free and Disabled for females and males aged 60 and over by cohort from 1980 and current for the survey years. This article was posted on 26 March 2003 at the Australian Policy Online website,
http://www.apo.org.au/ and new articles are available at http://www.apo.org.au