• Be active: maintaining regular physical activity is a well-tested way to prevent most of the long term illnesses that cause early death, or reduce quality of life: heart disease, strokes, diabetes, cancers, dementia. Kath has an lifelong exercise habit, and is active in some way every day, including stretches on her bad at home, swimming, and exercising at the gym.
• Be positive: Kath maintains a positive, can-do, flexible approach to life. On turning 70, she decided to do something adventurous every year, and so has had some pretty exciting experiences over the past 20 years: sky-diving, white-water rafting, black-water rafting, rally driving, to name a few.
• Be sociable: Kath has an active social life with her family, and the people she lives at Abbbeyfield with. Each week she takes her 96 year old sister (all 6 siblings survive and are in their eighties and nineties) on an outing to Takapuna, and she enjoys takes an active interest in companionship with others
• Eat well: Kath enjoys food – she ‘eats everything’ she says, and has a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables. A diet low in saturated fats is important.

Kath's home now, the proud winner of six gold and three silver medals at the 2009 Sydney Masters Games. These included:

• Women's 800 m freestyle  -  gold
• Women's 400 m freestyle - gold
• Women's 200 m freestyle - silver
• Women's 200 m breastroke - silver
• Women's 100 m breastroke - silver

• Women's 50 m medley
• Mixed medley relay 4 x 50 m
• Freestyle 4 x 50 m
  
• Medley relay