Health & Wellbeing

If you think you don’t need to read another book on loneliness, or you’ve put the subject in the ‘too hard basket’, then think again.

Dementia affects almost all of us. Nearly four out of five Kiwi families have to support or know someone who develops dementia.

At the end of 2020, the Inquiry released an Interim Report Tāwharautia: Pūrongo o te Wā.

New Zealand has begun rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination and the Government has ordered enough doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for everyone in New Zealand. It is free and voluntary to get if you are aged 16 years and over.

Last week, Joseph Darby, CEO and Financial Adviser at Milestone Direct Limited, shared ten tips to help maintain and boost happiness levels. In the final article of his two-part series, Joseph provides more helpful advice on how to ‘not worry and be happy.’ Relax about things we can’t control, focus …

Joseph Darby, CEO and Financial Adviser at Milestone Direct Limited, shares ten tips to help maintain and boost happiness levels in the first of a two-part series. The last 12 months have proved challenging for many people. Against such a backdrop, happiness is still a worthy goal we should all …

It has been a tough year to say the least – ‘unprecedented’ seemed to be the global consensus for a year plagued with anxiety, isolation, and disconnection. In New Zealand, we not only had to navigate the Coronavirus and the new uncertain reality it brought – lockdowns, home-working and home-schooling, social bubbles, and mask-wearing – but we were also recovering from the Christchurch Mosque attacks and …

Alan Thorp, Group Chief Executive Officer, Habitat for Humanity New Zealand, reflects on a challenging year. The past year held many challenges, and yet it provided Habitat in New Zealand with some of our most significant opportunities since our founding over 25 years ago. The impact of Covid-19 highlighted the …

The stress of having to pay for extra power costs for heating can be chilling for some of our most vulnerable people. Manawatu Home Budgeting Service Financial Mentors Jeanette Parsons and Brett Cole expect to see some people run into trouble with their power bill over winter. In their experience, the …

Will more countries appoint a “Minister of Loneliness” following the footsteps of the UK and Japan? In the United States, loneliness costs the country almost US$7 billion extra in healthcare costs each year. Loneliness is not the same as social isolation. People can be isolated (alone) yet not feel lonely. …