This year's Intergenerational Report makes much of the need to control the economic impact of the ageing baby boomers. It is expected that by 2056 one in four people living in Australia will be over the age of 65 and 1.8 million of them will be over 85.
The Productivity Commission's Caring for Older Australians Inquiry, helped shape the Living Longer Living Better suite of aged care reforms by the Gillard/Rudd Government.