AIA Australia

While the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Australians in many ways, for cancer patients the virus has presented a particular set of risks and challenges. To ensure customers living with the disease have access to the best support possible during these times, AIA Australia (AIAA) has expanded the kinds of assistance available through its partnership with […]

AIA Australia has partnered with data science specialists Quantium to produce the world’s largest study looking at the links between behavioural characteristics and risks of depression, and the findings show us how Australians can easily eliminate hundreds of thousands of depression incidences each year. Mental illness and ill-health is one of the fastest growing public […]

The world into which AIA Australia (AIAA) first launched its Mind Coach program was one vastly different to that we’re living in now. Even so, this vital telehealth service has proven both greatly beneficial and timely for the life and health insurer’s customers.

Every Australian has by now been affected by COVID-19 in some way, some dramatically.

At a time when many Australians are experiencing increased levels of stress and anxiety due to COVID-19, leading life and health insurer AIA Australia is stepping up to make a new mental health mobile app available for free to all Australians.

Living with persistent pain can be hugely debilitating, both physically and mentally. Painaustralia, the nation’s pain management peak body, estimates that up to one in five Australians live with chronic pain, and 44 per cent of those will experience depression or anxiety as a result. Tragically, chronic pain has also been found to be a common contributing factor in many suicides.

Off the back of the findings and recommendations of the Hayne Royal Commission, the Productivity Commission and various regulatory reviews, considerable focus has been concentrated on the value and appropriateness of default insurance in super.