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.

Frank Glavish last year became the oldest person to give evidence in a district court when he stood in the dock and faced a woman who had ripped him off after posing as a long-lost relative.

Each has his own answer to longevity, but it's likely the Mossman triplets have all reached 90 because they're so competitive none wants to be the first to die.

New Zealand seems to think dental care is one of those things that is "nice to have".

Remarkably, two in five girls born today will live for a century, and boys are close behind. But is longevity all it’s cracked up to be?

Naming clothes is one of the many new things you learn about when you first put your parent in an old folks' home, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

New research shows that people who are caring for elderly relatives are losing friendships, career opportunities and being heaped with financial and emotional pressure.

I had intended to avoid the subject of Lance Armstrong in this column, writes Dana Johannsen. But, like most of us, I've been sucked into the hype generated by the Oprah machine.

A blood test to determine how fast someone is ageing has been shown to work on a population of wild bird.

Nearly half of all senior drivers referred by doctors for on-road competency tests this year have failed, Transport Ministry figures reveal.

A surge in the number of older people being killed or seriously injured on the roads is being blamed on their fragility and New Zealand's ageing population.

An Alexandra rest home resident who loved sweets choked to death on one of his favourites, Turkish Delight, the Alexandra Coroners Court heard.