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COTA Australia has been working with the Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) Alliance since 2023 to improve consumer health literacy – particularly around medication. Resources available on this page.
If you feel the need to talk to someone about your current challenges, support is available through these services.
Experts advise that eating well, staying active, and getting enough sleep are essential for healthy bodies and body functioning, even if your abilities are more limited than they used to be.
With the holiday season around the corner, COTA Australia – the leading advocacy organisation for older people – is calling on all Australians to help combat loneliness by connecting with their older neighbours, friends, and family in their communities.
All Australians, no matter what their age, should have the right to an adequate standard of healthcare, and this includes mental health care and services.
We want to learn from you how the Covid 19 pandemic and restrictions affected you. For some older Australians life during the pandemic has been relatively easy to manage; for others, the time has proved more challenging, and has had ongoing impacts.
The pandemic has affected our health, how we live, socialise, and how we connect with each other. We are helping the Australian Mental Health Commission to study these changes. Our part of the larger project focuses on the experience of people over 75.
COTA Australia provided brief comments to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the accessibility and quality of mental health services in rural and remote Australia.
Australia’s leading seniors’ advocacy organisation, COTA Australia, has welcomed 20,000 new high-level home care packages for older Australians over the next four years and measures to make our aged care system easier to navigate for consumers.
February 2017 – COTA continues its call for current and future governments to take a long-term, strategic, integrated policy approach to population ageing, and a fair, equitable and productive policy approach towards current and future cohorts of older Australians.
Leading seniors peak COTA Australia today launched a petition as part of a campaign calling on new health minister Greg Hunt to reverse the historic anomaly that prevents older Australians in aged care accessing the same mental health services as everyone else in the community.
