Rugged up and in sturdy shoes, with a rucksack full of clothes, shampoo and cash, Jeanette Mary Alder was going "as far as she could go".

A nurse has been struck off the register for punching a "vulnerable" elderly man in the mouth while she was working at a resthome.

Health officials are being accused of racism for deciding to transfer a mental health contract for Pacific people from Mangere's bankrupt Pacificare Trust to a mainstream agency.

Rest-home nurses who rushed to an 82-year-old patient's scream found her on the floor with another patient's walking frame on top of her.

MidCentral District Health Board has released a damning audit report of Palmerston North's Rosa A Lea Rest Home, which it closed last month.

Residents at an Auckland retirement village are about to meet their newest carer.

A major elderly care operator has accused health authorities of a "witch hunt" over the closure of a rest home.