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Who Cares? Migration and our Diverse Ageing Futures - Professor Loretta Baldassar

Keynote delivered by Professor Loretta Baldassar at ADI's 2024 Conference on Monday 25 November at the Burwood Corporate Centre. Globally people are living longer and spending more time in older age than ever before. In Australia, with 1 in 3 people over 65 born overseas, our ageing population is among the most diverse in the world. Such population trends and complexities demand we change the way we think about, and prepare for, growing older. One approach, explored in this lecture, is inspired by the notion of ageing futures – a notion that highlights the social revolution needed to re-imagine our relationship to ageing. I discuss the importance of understanding our ageing futures through the lens of migration and care, arguing that migration is an aged care issue and aged care is a migration issue. We know older migrants access services later and in poorer health than the general population, and that culturally appropriate services, particularly dementia services, are sorely lacking. And yet, a significant – and growing – proportion of our aged care workforce is made up of migrant workers, who also have the lowest rates of job satisfaction and retention. Central to these service delivery and workforce challenges are our increasing temporary migration pathways, which create transnational families whose members are separated by distance – creating new forms of caring and ageing.