Director's Spotlight: Forum on health and well-being of older Australians.

CEPAR Chief Investigator Professor Kaarin Anstey chaired Living to get the Age Pension and enjoy life in retirement: Prospects and policy options, a forum organised by the ACT Australian Association of Gerontology on August 27. Associate Investigators Dr Peter Butterworth, Dr Peter Whiteford  and Dr Kim Kiely also contributed to discussion of factors affecting the health and well-being of older Australians now and in the future, and of policy options to address inequalities in retirement stemming from inequalities earlier in life, particularly those associated with workforce participation and disability.

CEPAR funded to research best practice in retirement income models

A grant of almost $500,000 over four years from the ARC’s Linkage Projects Scheme, plus $300,000 in partner funding,  will support a CEPAR collaboration with the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar) to investigate retirement income design.
The project will bring together a coalition of world-class researchers and leading industry experts to examine Australia and the Netherlands, countries with established and high quality mandatory pre-funded systems and models.

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