Anxiety in midlife and later life often looks quite different. It might show up in the doctor’s waiting room and the 3am mind. It might show up as a persistent undercurrent beneath ordinary days; the sense that something is wrong, or will be, and that the window for doing something about it is narrowing. Anxiety in the second half of life is a significant clinical and wellbeing concern that responds well to evidence-based treatment; and one that too many people carry alone, for too long, without support.

Most Australian workers are already using AI at work. Many are finding it helpful. And some — particularly those in midlife, with deep expertise in roles that are changing rapidly — are also navigating something more personal: questions about identity, purpose, and what their professional future looks like. This article explores both sides of that picture, and what psychology can offer.

There is a particular kind of disorientation that can arrive in midlife without much warning. Not a dramatic breakdown. Not a crisis in the Hollywood sense. Just a quiet, unsettling sense that the person you have been for the past twenty or thirty years no longer quite fits. The roles you have held, the labels you have lived by, the story you have told yourself about who you are; something about all of it has started to feel provisional. Uncertain. Like a pair of jeans that used to feel exactly right but now sit oddly. This article explores what the research tells us about identity in midlife: why it shifts, what that shift can feel like, what makes it harder, and what genuinely supports the process of finding, or more accurately, building, a new sense of self.

AI is changing who gets to work, and how. For midlife adults, job displacement isn't just a financial shock, it's an identity crisis. Here's what psychology offers for navigating this change.

Looking back isn't the same as being stuck in the past. Life review is an individualised yet structured, evidence-based approach that explores how you make sense of your experiences, resolve what's unfinished, and move into the next chapter with greater clarity and purpose.

For the nurses, doctors, chaplains, and allied health professionals who dedicate their careers to supporting people living with dementia, the rewards are genuine. So too are the challenges. This article explores psychological growth in senior health professionals working in dementia care — and what their experiences can tell us about meaning and purpose, adaptability, and what it means to truly give to another person.

There is a particular kind of pain that comes not from being attacked, but from being overlooked. For many Australians over 50, the experience of being rendered invisible — in workplaces, healthcare settings, media, and everyday social life — is not an abstract concern. It is a daily reality.

You walk into a room and forget why you're there. A name won't come. And somewhere in the back of your mind: "is this how it starts?" Fear of dementia is one of the most common health concerns in midlife — and one of the least clearly addressed. This article explains what normal memory change actually looks like, when it's worth speaking to your GP, and what the research tells us you can do to protect your brain across the decades ahead.

There is a particular kind of loneliness that can settle in at midlife and beyond; not the sharp loneliness of sudden loss, but something quieter and harder to name. A sense that the connections you once took for granted have slowly shifted. This article is for anyone in midlife and beyond who has wondered why connection feels harder than it used to, and what may help.

If you’re in your 40s, 50s, or 60s and starting to notice that you’re occasionally forgetting things, misplacing things, sometimes having trouble finding words, or worrying about future memory loss, you’re not alone. Although dementia is not a normal part of ageing, age is still the greatest risk factor for dementia (World Health Organisation [WHO], 2025). But what if an increasingly well-supported protective factor for brain health isn’t found in a prescription pad, but in something much more fundamental: your sense of purpose in life?