This year, Burnie joins our World Elder Abuse Awareness Day fold, with a walk, a morning tea and the added pleasure of the Ageing My Way exhibition – photographs and quotes to start conversations about what matters to us as we age. There'll be walks and refreshments in Hobart and Launceston too.
"For older Australians this is a tale of two budgets..." said COTA Australia CE, Ian Yates, in yesterday's live session on Facebook discussing the Federal Budget.
You can catch up on the session which included discussion from COTA representatives around Australia, as well as Q&As: http://ow.ly/EKiM
Older Australians will benefit from several measures in the Federal Budget aimed at increasing workforce participation and fixing retirement incomes, Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia says, but support for vulnerable groups like renters is still missing and long-term solutions are needed to ens