01/10/2026
As the sun goes down on another International Day of Older Persons, the message behind it should not.
People around the world are living longer. By 2050, the global population aged 60 and over is expected to reach 2.1 billion, almost double the proportion it represented in 2015.
Here in Australia, ageing is reshaping our communities too. Today, around 1 in 6 Australians is aged 65 or over, and that proportion is projected to reach almost 1 in 4 by 2065–66.
Longer lives bring enormous opportunity, but they also ask something of us.
How do we ensure those additional years are lived with dignity, choice, connection, security and meaning?
How do we build health, care and community systems that evolve alongside the people they exist to support?
For Leecare, these questions have always mattered.
Care has been at the centre of our thinking from the beginning, with technology designed to support the people delivering care and, ultimately, the people receiving it.
Because older people are not simply recipients of services.
They are parents and grandparents. Partners and friends. Teachers, leaders, carers, innovators, storytellers and holders of a lifetime of knowledge.
As today comes to a close, the conversation must continue.
Longer lives should also be better lives. 💜
*Sources: World Health Organization, Ageing and health; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia’s health 2026.