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Immigrants' older parents with $1m to invest get priority

Trip to interview writer over mother's death not ruled out

PM: Super rise to match GST

Baby boomers re-entering business owner ranks?

David Newport, principal of business sales & acquisitions firm Switch Business asks if those baby-boomers really do want to get out entirely?

The secret of youth: maybe it's all in your genes

Secret of youth may be in your genes

Scientists have found that people who inherit two copies of a particular DNA variant show the biological signs of being about eight years "older" than people of the same age who carry neither genetic variant.

Patient found under resident's walking frame before death

Rest-home nurses who rushed to an 82-year-old patient's scream found her on the floor with another patient's walking frame on top of her.

Warming to hit pockets: report

<i>David Russell:</i> Let's make houses that say welcome

90 reasons to skydive

Thrill-seeking great-great-grandmother Violet Maskell celebrated her 90th birthday earlier this month by jumping out of a plane.

Rest home to close after failing standards

A rest home and hospital for the aged in South Auckland will close next month after it failed to meet standards imposed by health authorities.

DHB releases damning audit of rest home

MidCentral District Health Board has released a damning audit report of Palmerston North's Rosa A Lea Rest Home, which it closed last month.

Death sparks inquiry into dementia care

Study finds young-looking live longer

If you look young, you'll live longer - study

Appearance is a useful guide to longevity and can be used to distinguish those who will die young from those likely to live to a great age, researchers say.

<i>Kerre Woodham:</i> Rhino Wood sees the light