Dan and Gwen Taylor Fellow Lecture: Care Ethics in an Aging Society
People are living longer lives and having fewer children. One important consequence of this is that there are increasingly fewer younger people around to provide care for the growing number of persons living into advanced old age.
Care work can be rewarding, but it also tends to be burdensome, as well as unequally distributed. While this is true of care work in general, the aim of this lecture by Professor Daniel Halliday (University of Melbourne) will be to examine some of the complexities around the burden of elder care and why they are special.
Date: Tuesday 6th October 2026.
Time: 5.30 to 7pm.
Location: Online.
Cost: FREE.
It's stating the obvious to say that elder care is rather unlike other kinds of care work, such as childcare. But some of the differences go undiscussed, and do not get the attention they deserve. It is acceptable to talk about looking forward to when one’s children grow old enough that they require less care work. But to say this of elder care is to break a taboo, since it is very close to wishing for someone’s death.
Find out more about this online lecture on care ethics in an aging society, including how to access the livestream.