{"id":394512,"date":"2026-04-23T23:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:41:08","slug":"love-heart-over-60s-learning-experience-launches-in-hawkes-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394512\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Heart: Over 60s learning experience launches in Hawke\u2019s Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLearners love a hands-on environment, collaboration with one another, and having robust discussions together \u2013 which is very different from having someone speaking at you via a video link,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere has been a 34% increase in the number of people aged over 60 in the past decade, and within a few short years, New Zealand will have more people over 65 than under 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cKeeping the brain engaged and finding joy in human connection are critical in maintaining wellness as we grow older.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Valintine says that the over-60s had been an \u201cunderserved demographic\u201d for too long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI truly believe that as the world becomes more complex and less predictable, learning and community are the two things that support confidence and strength at all ages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere\u2019s an assumption that over-60s are slowing down when, actually, many are looking towards their best years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNew Zealand\u2019s older population is increasingly interested in intellectual discussion, new experiences and would love an opportunity to foster new friendships at the same time.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLearners love a hands-on environment, collaboration with one another, and having robust discussions together \u2013 which is very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[203820,1561,682,17515,1976,2862,78,1743,1739,11285,2882,4486,111,139,1536,69,1523,9527,117812,213],"class_list":["post-394512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-60s","tag-bay","tag-being","tag-experience","tag-hawkes","tag-heart","tag-in","tag-launched","tag-launches","tag-learning","tag-love","tag-month","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-programme","tag-promised","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}