Who says that university is something you do once after you leave school? In a rapidly changing work environment there is a greater need for people to retrain midway through their careers or even just before they retire. More and more people are returning to study later on in life. For some people a second chance at education might offer an exciting change of career, for others renewed social connections or even just a chance to revisit life’s pressing existential questions.

Read Marketwatch’s take on further education and late-career changes: "More colleges are offering programs for ‘encore’ careers".

Meet Dr Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor with a difference from the UK. Her work in a hospice taught her that every moment in life matters.

“I couldn’t give a damn about wrinkles or middle age or putting on weight or my first grey hairs or reading specs – these are reasons to celebrate. I am so lucky I have them.”

Read more of her interview with the Guardian: ‘Wrinkles, middle age, grey hairs… these are reasons to celebrate’ .

And finally, an interview in the Otago Daily Times with Dr Sue MacDonell from the University of Otago’s human nutrition department. She has a focus on malnutrition in older people:

“In my practice I saw people admitted to rest-homes in a malnourished state because they were not able to provide suitable food for themselves. A Massey University study found close to 93% of new admissions to residential aged care were malnourished.”

Find out more about her dietary advice: Otago Daily Times "Care in later years".