Health & Wellness

David Philips left England, travelled widely and lived in other countries before settling in the Nelson area 12 years ago.

 Read more from Agewell.    By Mike Milstein Dr. Beven Grant is Professor of Sport and Leisure ...

At the age of 17 Dennis Mapley left London to discover the world. After seeing posters at New Zealand house on the Strand he lied about his age and became one of the first "L10 pommies."

How we live these added years has as much to do with the conscious intent to make them meaningful and positive as it does with our health and financial situations?

Judy Biggs, who has lived and worked in Nelson for the past 14 years, is in her forties, which makes her part of the "in between generation."

As George Burns reminds us, we have to grow older but we don't have to grow old!

Dr. Carla Herman, who is Chief, Division of Geriatrics at the University of New Mexico, was a featured presenter at a seminar held last year in preparation for the review of positive aging policies. Here is what she had to say.

Do you get that awful feeling in your stomach? How do you know if you have this bug? How do you treat this bug? Find out from Eric right here.

Jay Shapiro moved from Brooklyn, New York to New Zealand more than thirty years ago because he thought this country would provide opportunities for him to become more reflective and inner focused and that he has!

Work brought Liz Chinnery to Nelson about twenty years ago. Now sixty nine and retired, she says "every day I pull back the curtains, look outside and say yay, another day! Any day is a good day in Nelson."