Baby Boomers needs

There is a need for “baby boomers” families, particularly blended families to carefully organise their affairs while they are able to do so. See High Court case of Stanford v Stanford

While this is a family law case the process recommended should extend to wills, powers of attorney and appointments of enduring guardians for these "boomers".

Aged Care Complaints Scheme

If you have a concern about the care you or someone else is receiving, it is important that you talk about it. Complaints can help care providers improve their services and quality of care. For more detail on:

• Raising your concern with the service provider
• Lodging a complaint
• Asking for a review of a decision or process
• Frequently asked questions
• Contacting an advocacy service
• Reforms to the Aged Care Complaints Scheme
• Latest information about that Scheme

See
health.gov.au/../ageing-complaints

All my friend are getting Seniors Cards

To be eligible, you must be a New South Wales permanent resident, aged 60 or over and work no more than 20 hours a week in paid employment.

See this website for the application form options:
seniorscard.nsw.gov.au/about/aboutseniorscard.asp

Advance care directives - a briefing

Can you choose the way you die by writing an advance care directive?
By doing this you appoint someone to make the medical decisions when you can't.
The focus is to make your wishes clear, to tell someone about them, and importantly to do it while you are clearly competent.

But first get the background by listening to this podcast:
Who decides how we die?
abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2011/3238493.htm
Sometimes called

‘advanced health care directive’

"advance" or "advanced" it is still a directive that is made well in advance of the need for it.
It's a Living Thing
luchettilawyers.com.au/..ItsaLivingThing.aspx
and
wills-probate.blogspot.com/2009/11/advance-care-directive.html

Aging Successfully

a book by George Lawton (Author) Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press (1946), yes 1946
ISBN-10: 0231015364
ISBN-13: 978-0231015363

How to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living..- Amiel

Chapters:
So you want to live long
A woman grows older,
Jobs after fifty,
Love at maturity,
Can age and youth be friends?,
A philosophy for maturity.
..and our favorite:
To invite trouble after fifty

See the review:
pep-web.org/document.php?id=paq.016.0117a

and
These findings that provide encouraging evidence that disability prior to death is not an inevitable part of a long life but may be prevented by moderate physical activity.
aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/149/7/654.short
and the full article:
aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/149/7/654.full.pdf