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Lesley and Richard Evans discuss their adventures in home gardening. Gardening is exercise, nature, achievement and fun at any age. Lesley is extremely brave, and Richard ups my horticultural knowledge big time

At 86 I'm hungry for role models who show me how they manage life in their 90s. Rachelle Calkoen may be 102 but she is fully engaged with the world.

How can you carry on driving safely and how will you know when you can't?

Meena Kadri is only 56 but she already has activities that will be fun in old age. She gets great pleasure from activities with friends who are decades older than her. They inevitably show her different ways of being old, and they bring surprising stories and wisdom and fun to their conversation. That’s one reason […]

Look, you don’t want to fall over, do you, especially if you’re old and your bones are brittle. Luckily there’s plenty of scientific evidence about how to build our strength and balance, and proof that it really works. Adrian Pretorius’s work helps to keep hundreds of people out of hospital. He’s got tips, apps, and […]

Here’s a very special discussion I recorded a couple of years ago with Judith Fyfe. As a trailblazing oral historian in New Zealand she has vast experience in recording the voices of older people, for example, World War I veterans and our centenarians. As a young journalist and talkback host, Judith Fyfe started to learn […]

Do you keep making New Year resolutions as you age? I learn from local people up to age 50. How about in your 60s or 70s or 80s: do you change your approach to resolutions? I'd love to know!

Anyone can keep a diary or journal. It's easy, you can't fail. For older people it brings special benefits. Plus, less embarrassing like the diaries of youth, bless them.

So good to know we can keep on dancing as we age. That includes Jan Bolwell, who dances and performs after two mastectomies and a hip replacement.Inspiring.