Green Goddess, Diana Moran, talks to Hapipod Founder, Andrea Frankenthal, about how she maintains her vitality Diana Moran fondly became known as the Green Goddess through her trademark green leotard when she hit our TV screens in the 1980s introducing fitness to the nation. …

We live in an era of improved health management and delayed ageing. The divide between generations is diminishing and intergenerational friendships are more prevalent than ever. Since older doesn’t have to mean less active, curious or adventurous, there are many ways for friends or family of different generations to enjoy…

As the cost-of-living emergency tightens its screws, so pressure mounts on older homeowners to downsize and sell lifelong family homes. Quite aside from the lack of appropriate properties to move to, there are strong arguments to hold on to your homes rather, and utilise the space more effectively. …

Soaring bills and impossible rents are causing widespread misery, but homeshare-with-help could offer millions a solution Two problems, one solution We are living in what it is now being described as a ‘cots-of-living emergency’. Inflation is at a 30 year high, millions of UK Homeowners are struggling to pay energy and food bills, while millions of tenants and young lodgers are being evicted, or priced out…

Ordinarily active lives can so easily be derailed by sudden health problems. This was the case for Gaynor, a fitness professional, reflexologist and busy grandmother, now in her mid-sixties. Her slight frame, the consequences of a series of surgeries, belies a fiercely independent lady. …

In an incredible show of humanitarian compassion, over 200,000 UK householders have signed up to the Government’s campaign to provide a spare room to individuals or families fleeing the war in Ukraine. This is despite mounting anxiety over soaring global energy and food bills described as ‘catastrophic’ by ‘Money Saving…

Jane and her 12-year-old daughter, Maisy, are enjoying the recent addition to their coterie — Meela, an impossibly cute pug/poodle/chihuahua cross. Jane is an English teacher in her early fifties working in a large state school in Kensal Rise, North-West London. …

Many of the UK’s 18.6 million spare rooms have lain empty over the years, gathering dust, with just the tantalising promise of use by the odd guest. For others they have created storage space for mounting clutter. Invariably though, they nag on a homeowner’s conscience when instead they could prove…

Why having companions from a different generation can be good for you. We are living longer and stronger than ever before, and ‘middle age’ is shifting later into life. It is harder now to differentiate between the energy of many sixty somethings and twenty somethings. One consequence of this is…