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.

The note received by a 100-year-old New Zealand man read just like it was from one Old Salt to another until he saw "Philip" and the monogram of Buckingham Palace.

The young assistant had just confirmed that, no, they didn't have any phone diaries with print large enough for Gold Card holders to read.

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.

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.

"I'm not looking forward to July 28 this year," I gloomily announced, "on that date, I'll be especially reminded that I'm getting old."

This ageing process is such a bitch, writes Robyn Yousef. In your mind you're still a rampant teenager, but your flesh expands, then folds and drops, pieces dry out and random people start addressing you as "dear".

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.

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.

The Government has been urged to create a new aged care watchdog with legal power to tackle the rising incidence of financial abuse of vulnerable elderly people.

A New Zealand-controlled retirement village business is expanding its British investments, building a new 115 million London project.

Prime Minister John Key has his head in the sand with his block on raising the retirement age and is more interested in clinging to power.

Auckland neuro-scientists have made important discoveries in how Alzheimer's and Parkinson's may affect the brain.

When people have expressed concern about me climbing Kilimanjaro, going hot-air ballooning or even running marathons, my response has been the same.