The 30-year-old star has been training at a specialist gym where clients are put through punishing regimes that act like a "natural Botox" to fight off ageing.

Women aged 50-plus urged to do at least 5 hours a week of exercise to help reduce the risk of breast cancer.

We all need to accept that we will grow old and stop shaming women for 'letting themselves go'.

Hot flushes, night sweats, headaches and difficulty sleeping. Not forgetting mood swings like a roller-coaster. Yep, it’s the menopause.

Why does making your mind up only get harder as you get older and what the hell do you do about it, wonders Greg Dixon.

Hope springs from 40-year-long study showing big disparity in rates of ageing.

Heather du Plessis-Allan asks: How do we get people in their golden years to stay working?

Retirement village residents have created their own body, seeking a law review to give them more power.

The scheme was originally budgeted to cost taxpayers $18 million a year. That has now swollen to $26 million, and will continue to rise if nothing is done.

Completing the crossword and taking regular exercise may ease the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease - but will not prevent it, scientists say.

In an attempt to make Metro's most powerful Aucklanders list, Peter Bromhead decides to rebrand as a gossip columnist.

Use these tests to check whether you're as fit as you should be for your age, and learn what you can do to improve your fitness.

There is a universal blueprint for females: career, marriage, house, baby, career... anyone who fails to adhere has somehow failed, writes Bryony Gordon.

Ageing is great if you mature like a fine wine. But what if, like most men, you mature more like a ripe cheese? Martin Daubney explains the options.

Star argues there is no point "trying to fight" the ageing process, saying hair dye and plastic surgery "actually makes you look older".

Drinking orange juice every day could help improve brain function in elderly people, research has suggested.

Nearly 33,000 New Zealanders live in retirement villages, up from just over 24,000 people three years ago.

What's a fitting reward for being ambitious, stylish, beautiful, passionate? Something that speaks to the hearts of smart, successful women in 2015?

Older women are more likely to take up exercising and stick to it if they are part of a small group guided by a personal trainer.

Some regions will "fail" economically and perhaps socially unless we help them to adjust, the Salvation Army says.

Lady Luck has waved her magic wand upon Peter Bromhead, who claims to have won the chance to spin Lotto's lucrative spinning wheel.

A major shift to more voucher-type funding of social services, including health and education, is proposed in a new official report.

Elderly people are having their children move back in and are being threatened with a lack of contact with grandchildren if the 'takeover' is challenged.

A scientist specialising in anti-ageing research has made the bold claim that he will live to be 150, and he takes 100 drugs a day in pursuit of that goal.

I've had to stop sitting next to businessmen on the bus. They always try to fold themselves inwards when I sit down, Verity Johnson writes.

A new index of "wellbeing" has found that New Zealanders get more "awesome" as they get older.