Gran Hazel
My mother used to say women's health was whatever was left over once the baby came. She wasn't joking, and I'm not sure she was wrong.
This month the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health turned 30. It follows more than 57,000 women across four generations, the oldest born between 1921 and 1926. There are 135 of them over 100, still filling in their surveys. Professor Deb Loxton said women's health research used to be seen as "little more than the sum of our reproductive parts".
Thirty years of women writing down how they actually feel. That's the lived body, counted properly.
Now I want to know what the centenarians write on those forms. Do they feel a hundred? Or does it sneak up, the way it does on the rest of us?
Talk to your GP or health professional about your own body.
Source: University of Newcastle, 2026-04-23
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