All eyes will be on Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday when he hands down the Government’s first major budget since Labor’s election win last year. UQ has experts from a wide range of fields available to analyse the budget and what the...
5 May 2023
University of Queensland research has revealed a need for better protection for assistance animals and support for their owners facing financial hardship or moving into aged care.
7 February 2023
University of Queensland researchers are working with people living with dementia to develop an online driver safety test that can be performed by GPs in their surgeries.
5 January 2023
The University of Queensland has become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to join the Age-Friendly University Global Network.
16 November 2020
Researchers from The University of Queensland are recruiting people living with dementia, along with their carers, to help with a study exploring emerging transport technologies.
5 August 2020
University of Queensland experts are available to comment during Queensland Seniors Week, August 18 to August 26. Journalists can contact the experts below or search by topic or name at UQ Experts.
14 August 2018.jpg?itok=-o63LSvn "Professor Nancy Pachana ... we need to find ways to enhance our functioning and wellbeing in the later decades of life")
What is the key to positive and successful ageing? How can society best provide for our greying population?
7 March 2017
Stopping driving is linked to depression in older women, but the negative mental effects can be buffered by maintaining social contact and participating in social activities.
21 September 2016
We spend the majority of our childhood years waiting to do it, and in adulthood we try to hang on for as long as possible before giving it up.
27 June 2016
University of Queensland ageing experts have rejected calls for all older drivers to relinquish their licences.
7 January 2016
The festive season can provoke positive and negative feelings in people of all ages, but can pose particular challenges for some older people, a University of Queensland expert has warned.
21 December 2015
The cost of electing and employing overconfident people is one of several University of Queensland psychology studies to receive fresh Australian Research Council (ARC) funding.
11 November 2015
A trip to the stunning shores of the Torres Strait Islands has reinforced the need to make a difference to dementia sufferers in even the remotest of locations.
7 April 2015
Doctors need improved tools to test the capacity of elderly patients to manage their finances, University of Queensland research shows.
2 February 2015The University of Queensland’s research strengths in social science have been recognised by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), who extended fellowship to three UQ researchers this week.
19 September 2014Australian researchers have identified lifestyle factors that impair women’s brain performance as early as age 45.
18 December 2013With an ageing population and the competing interests of the individual, the family, service providers, the market and the state in the use of older people’s financial assets, protection and quality management of such assets has never been more...
17 September 2012
Research projects at The University of Western Australia and The University of Queensland and have received a total of more than $425,000 in the second round of UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Awards funding.
24 October 2011Couples where one member has dementia and the other is the primary care-giver are sought for a UQ–University of Melbourne research study.
5 August 2010
A UQ researcher who is working to better understand the ageing brain has been singled out for her achievements.
7 June 2010- 1 of 2
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