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Fred Hardy isn’t particularly comfortable with the word “inspiration”, but it’s pretty hard to see him as anything else.
For just over a decade, he’s been hitting the gym regularly, sometimes six days a week.
‘Big deal,’ I hear you say. Plenty of people do that.
But how many of them are 77 years old and taking part in one of the most intense forms of exercise around – CrossFit?
From RNZ: An advocate for older people says recent cold temperatures combined with the cost of power and other goods have
produced a crisis point, with many people forced to choose between food and heating.
Age Concern Canterbury chief executive Greta Bond told Morning Report older people on fixed incomes were having to make
real choices every day about whether they will be warm or fed.
"Every week we're encountering people who are really struggling. Renters are in a particularly precarious position because they may be
spending 60 or 70 percent of their pension on rent.
"It's actually a real crisis for people. I don't think people really understand or like to think that we have older people who are actively
living in poverty in our country," Bond said.
Many people were resorting to spending most of their day in bed with negative consequences.
"They might get up
From the Herald: Loneliness is common in seniors, and its grip on those feeling it can lead to declining health and elder
abuse. Rafaella Melo reports for her The
Years Ahead series.
When Mary’s* husband died, the support was everywhere.
Friends checked in, family rallied around. Meals were brought around, phone calls came in, comfort was offered.
But as the weeks turned into months, life slowly returned to normal for everyone elset.
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