Adult nappies will soon outsell baby nappies in Japan. And according to Harvard economics professor David Bloom, that's a stark warning for NZ.

Every Wednesday afternoon at around 2.15, Janusz Szubski sings. You have to be standing close to hear him, but it doesn't make much difference: he's not singing for you.

A woman believed to be New Zealand's oldest resident has died at the age of 110 at a rest home north of Wellington.

Whether we wake today to a brave new world or more of the same old muddle, it's undeniable that the past few weeks have been so preoccupying that we have been diverted from more important matters.

There's a hot new drug called TRT that its users take to make them feel more energetic, more alive, more aggressive and sexier, too.

One of the peculiarities of ageing is that hair which once grew profusely on top of my head has now been diverted to sprout uncontrollably from my nose and ears.

Older people in New Zealand are happy with their health. About 60 per cent in an extensive survey of the very old told researchers their health was good, very good or excellent.

I got into a fist fight with a 75-year-old man the other morning. Not the coolest thing I have ever done.. but he started it, writes Matt Heath.

As retirement looms, they see the baby-boomers take an ever-increasing share of the economic pie, not just in the form of superannuation but in healthcare too, writes Susan St John.

Telomeres - the little stretches of DNA that hold our chromosomes together - could have the answers to switching off the ageing process.

One of the most successful authors in British history, with legions of fans and millions of pounds to her name is not immune to pressure.

I was slightly puzzled recently when I received an invitation to contribute to a second edition of a title called Grumpy Old Men, writes Peter Bromhead.

A woman who left her mother in an appalling state of neglect should be sent to prison for a long time after committing one of the worst cases of elder abuse this country has seen, Grey Power says.

When you're young, you never imagine you're going to grow old, writes Kerre McIvor. In fact, when you're young, you don't actually want to grow old.

It's a sunny weekday morning and the lounge of Maygrove Village in Orewa is sparsely populated.

The country's major rest home chains are facing a legal battle over pay as the unions representing aged care workers bring proceedings under the Equal Pay Act.

About 280,000 New Zealanders are waiting for elective surgery, and more than half are not on waiting lists, new research shows.

A caregiver says elderly residents at a rest home in the Wellington area were dressed again in dirty continence pads to save money on new pads.

A two-month Herald investigation of rest homes has found some major failings - including a confused married woman "mauled" by a resident and a 9-month scabies outbreak.

Full rest home and private hospital audit reports will be published online from tomorrow in a six-month trial to see whether people read them.

Retired air force warrant officer Frank Bailey, MBE, has never been a complainer. But when he speaks of his late wife, Lilian, he chokes up.

Most people will welcome Grey Power's call for an Aged Care Commissioner to tackle the rising incidence of financial abuse of vulnerable older Kiwis, writes Sue Kedgley.

Think a typical Kiwi entrepreneur is young and tech-savvy? Think again.