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A growing number of farmers around Australia are postponing their retirement plans due to the effects of the global financial crisis.
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Millthorpe, NSW...would you retire to the area?

Perhaps a small town like Millthorpe, NSW is your cup of tea?
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Best Place To Retire In Australia

We travel Australia to find the very best retirement spots. We don't sit at home gazing at the computer screen...we actively go and research areas around Australia.
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More Respect For Older Australians

Ageist attitudes and discriminating barriers could soon start to diminish, one individual at a time, if a new three-phase research trial into seniors and the role of respect proves to be successful.
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Senior Australians Lead Risky Sex Lives

Senior citizens in Australia's old-age homes and retirement facilities are leading active but ‘risky’ sex lives and most of them have more than one active partner.
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Insomniacs Wanted....Must Be Over 55 Years

Insomnia is the term used for repeated difficulty falling asleep, waking during the night, or waking up too early which results in daytime sleepiness and poor daytime functioning. In Australia insomnia is most common in older adults
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Meet Sally, Still Working At 101

A 101-year-old woman who works for the Nebraska Legislature has been chosen as America's Outstanding Oldest Worker for 2010. Sally Gordon has been an assistant sergeant-at-arms for the Nebraska Legislature for 26 years, helping with its day-to-day operations when it's in session.
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Oz In Bid To Lure 'Bored Workers'

An estimated 60% of British employees are bored with their jobs and almost three-quarters never leave their office during work hours, according to a study.
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Best Place To Retire In Australia?

For some, the best place to retire is a place in the country.
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The Best Places To Retire

In the last ten years or so, we've seen the population of many of our coastal cities and towns swell, with a large number of people choosing to spend their retirement in these centres.
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Golden Oldies Still At The Top Of Their Game

They're among the most successful, wealthiest and admired businessmen in the country. But they're also some of the longest in the tooth, members of our own corporate Dad's Army: well past retirement age, worth millions, still working and wielding significant clout.
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Free Inspection Service Protects Elderly Victorians from Costly Winter Slip and Trip Hazards

Annually in Victoria there are approximately 250 fall-related deaths, 12,000 fall-related hospital admissions and at least 12,000 hospital emergency department presentations for fall injuries in the age group 65+ years.
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Expat Pensioners Don't Miss Home As Survey Reveals Seven Out Of Ten Britons Living Abroad Are Likely To Stay

Seven out of ten Britons who have retired abroad are happy with their new country and likely to stay there, a survey said yesterday.
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Japan puts the elderly to work Solution to an aging society: out of the hammock and back in the office

Kato Manufacturing, in Nakatsugawa, in central Japan, is hardly a relaxing place. Generators grind, the air pounds with the slam of steel presses, and hundreds of pieces of metal rattle as they’re shuffled and arranged and transported on wheeled carts. In the middle of the racket, 73-year-old Hisao Kitawaki works steadily, showing a new employee how to guide a steel basket filled with grease-laden parts—for autos, airplanes, hairdryers—into a cauldron of cleaning solution. H
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Grey Nomads Fill Rural Skills Shortage

'One of the big challenges for rural communities is how to attract - and keep a skilled workforce. It's an issue that has prompted a number of studies, one of which investigated the question of how rural communities can maximise the benefit from highly skilled workers in the context of an increasingly mobile and transitory workforce'.
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Seniors To Keep Working

RAY Sawdy is a fighting fit member of the Sunshine Coast Grey Army, a company that recruits tradies over the age of 40 for work.
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ntroducing More Services On QLD's Doorstep!

Introducing more services on QLD's doorstep! Older people living independently in their own home throughout South-East Queensland will be able to reap the benefits of having a new community healthcare organisation at their doorstep.
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Retire To Townsville? What's In Their New Resident's Kit?

Having a comprehensive New Resident‘s Kit is essential in letting people know about an area.
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