Cohort profile: The Dynamic Analyses to Optimize Ageing (DYNOPTA) project

Abstract

Like other industrialized countries, Australia is facing major population ageing. From 2000 to 2025, the number of Australians aged 65 years and over will more than double, as a result of the ageing of the baby boom cohort and increasing life expectancy, while the number of people in working age groups will decline. To guide constructive responses to this unprecedented change,