French Novelist & Author
“It’s time to look at where we want to go. To create a new future. A different future. A future that utilises and maximises this gift of longer lives.” ~Catherine Rickwood, TEDx Canberra 2018~ September was an exciting month for Dr Catherine Rickwood, stepping onto...
Have you heard of a geriatrician? Don’t be surprised if you haven’t. They are specialists that we discover when we’re older or when we have elderly parents or grandparents with a range of physical and/or cognitive health challenges. Geriatricians focus on the health...
For decades, Australians have held home ownership to be the mark of status and success in life. However, this ignores the more basic and fundamental role of owning our own home, including physical shelter; physical and psychological wellbeing; and a source of wealth...
Popular culture would have us believe that once we are forty, we are more or less washed up and on a downhill trajectory. It's easy to agree with this view if our thinking is aligned with cultural conditioning that sees age as a category (of young or old) rather than...
Have you ever been frustrated with a customer service representative - whether on the phone, via email or face-to-face? Why the frustration? Maybe you felt misunderstood. Or, perhaps the person was constrained by a script, process, system, or structure of their...
Yes! In fact at the recent Professional Planners Post Retirement Conference I suggested that financial planners (FP’s) had both an opportunity and responsibility to dig deeper with their clients on understanding ‘retirement’. Typically, clients are seeking clarity...
It’s time we scrapped the idea of smart homes as the province of the young and digitally savvy. Research shows that smart homes could be the cornerstone of healthy ageing. In fact, smart technologies enable older Australians to live longer, safely, and independently...
I want to stay at home. Forever. In fact, research by Catherine Rickwood reveals that people are more afraid of going to a nursing home or a retirement village than dying. So what can architects, property developers, and the construction industry do to reimagine and...
It’s a well-known fact that Australia’s population is ageing. We’re living longer and healthier than at any other time in history. And increasingly, we’re choosing to stay in our own homes as we age. So what does this mean for architects, builders, town planners, and...
