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Retirement village risks focus of new campaign
A crown organisation is out to raise awareness about the real financial, personal and legal impact of buying into a retirement village.
A crown organisation is out to raise awareness about the real financial, personal and legal impact of buying into a retirement village.
Retirement village residents who buy into a huge new Hobsonville waterfront village will lose 25pc of their purchase price when they sell after five years.
Older people are more likely to be targeted by scams and fraud.
More than 11 new retirement villages will need to be built annually to cater for our aging population.
The deaths of two Whangarei rest home residents after an outbreak of respiratory virus at a Waipu care home is being investigated by health officials.
Retirement giant Ryman Healthcare has released the first image of a $100 million North Shore village on a site where hundreds of people will live.
Arvida Group posted its first-half profit of about $7.4 million, putting it on track to meet its prospectus forecast for full-year earnings.
Serious weathertightness issues have been found at the popular Eastcliffe Retirement Village in Orakei and repairs to the buildings will cost $12 million and take five years to fix.
A retirement village set up an elaborate hidden-camera sting to catch one of its workers, after residents complained that they had lost thousands of dollars.
Huge demand in the retirement sector propelled Metlifecare to push up net profit after tax 78.3 per cent to $122.7m.
Residents at Warkworth's Summerset Falls retirement village have complained about delays to a recreation centre expansion.
Selwyn Village residents are leading the charge to try to get the staff who look after them a living wage.
An organisation representing many of New Zealand's 33,000 retirement village residents has backed changes to the dispute system.
The need to strengthen the retirement village complaints system has been questioned following a report recommending change.
A forum is being established by the retirement commissioner to investigate better ways to resolve disputes.
One of New Zealand's largest privately owned elderly-care, rest home and retirement village businesses is planning a $450 million to $500 million expansion.
Nearly 33,000 New Zealanders live in retirement villages, up from just over 24,000 people three years ago.
A rest home worker who was dismissed after being caught with a gardener in a dead resident's room has been awarded more than $28,000 in compensation.
Two near-misses in which elderly dementia sufferers narrowly avoided harm after wandering away from caregivers have been slammed as "appalling".
An Auckland hospital for the elderly failed to make a written plan on how staff would prevent a high-risk resident from developing pressure sores.
Watercare is pumping water from tankers into water pipes for almost 600 elderly people in two retirement villages and a hospital affected by a general water outage in the Albany area.
Neighbours have failed to stop Ryman Healthcare getting consent for a $100 million-plus village between Greenlane and One Tree Hill.
Graham Wilkinson's Christchurch-based Retirement Assets is spending $320 million developing and expanding three retirement villages and he is now hunting for further sites.
A dramatic rise in the number of rest-home caregivers working on temporary visas is raising concerns about disruption to the lives of vulnerable rest-home residents.
A neighbour is opposing a new Auckland Ryman Healthcare village, saying views will be blocked and roads jammed with traffic when hundreds of elderly people move in.