For New Zealanders, Judy Bailey ONZM is a household name, similar to Australia's Kerri-Anne Kennerley or America's Diane Sawyer.

Originally trained as a journalist, Judy went on to become an immensely popular newsreader, presenting primetime news for many years.

Fondly nicknamed 'Mother of the nation', and often dubbed a national treasure Judy’s now in her 70s and she's written the book, Evolving, Finding Health & Happiness As We Age.

Evolving is peppered with some of Judy's personal stories as well as the latest findings of growing older.

It serves as a brilliant handbook for anyone entering midlife and beyond covering everything to do with health and wellbeing in two parts.

From nutrition to dementia, death, grief and resilience Judy tackles the good and the bad including the subjects nobody wants to talk about.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Evolving, Serena Williams and 'the R word' (4:38 )

• Navigating mental and physical change as you grow older (5:25 )

• The Harvard Study of Adult Development - the longest longitudinal study in the world (7:05 )

• The most profoundly effective thing you can do for yourself to age well (7:59 )

• The holistic aspect of health and wellbeing (8:42 )

• The Maori way of looking at health (9:22 )\

• The global issue of dementia (10:19 )

• Death, grief, paperwork and resilience (13:37 )

• Our fundamental need for relationships (15:38 )

• Marriage and melanoma (15:20 )

• On being 'Mother of the nation' (22:00 )

• The problem of loneliness (25:32 )

• Grandfriends (27:47 )

• Beauty, style and feeling invisible (29:30 )

• Sarcopenia (31:19 )

• The grey (hair) movement (32:14 )

• Shametenance - Professor Claire Chambers (34:48 )

• Gerotranscendence and death cleaning (35:40 )

• Inspirational books (39:00 )

  
  

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Episode Resources:

• Evolving: Finding Health & Happiness As We Age - New Zealand, Australia, Rest Of The World

• Dementia: New Zealand, Australia

• Alzheimer's: New Zealand, Australia

• Age Concern NZ, Age Concern Australia

• The Grief Centre

• Hospice

• The Brainwave Trust

• Skin Check

• Skin Vision Melanoma Tracking App

• Grandfriends surrogate grandparents

• Intact by Professor Clare Chambers

• Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts To A Happier Life by George Vaillant

• Biography of Putin

• The Women by Kristin Hannah. Buy: New Zealand, Australia, Worldwide

• Catherine Chigley The Axeman's Carnival Buy: New Zealand, Australia, Worldwide

  
  

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