Editorial

sydney.edu.au Research on ageing with disability dates back more than four decades. However, the evidence base sup-porting practice and policy across the fields of ageing and disabilities remains small in virtually all disci-plines. In part, this can be attributed to the bifurcation of ageing and disability research, but it is also linked to the lack of a structural framework that supports bridging the areas of ageing and disability and the very few researchers working within these boundar-ies. In the past decade, declarations on the need to bridge ageing and disability have been forwarded [1–3], and the Toronto Declaration [4] now adds its voice from a global perspective. Despite the prior calls, advancement in bridging ageing and disabilit