Here are a sample of readers' emails in response to our series on rest homes.

The Human Rights Commission is calling for a star-rating system that would expose poorly performing rest homes to help families avoid them.

A former rest home manager is calling for better care for the elderly after her father was "starved of food and fluid" in a Whakatane centre.

A rest home company which was overcharging some residents is about to have its district health board contract terminated.

Editorial: Documents for public consumption should be written succinctly and in plain English. Their value is much reduced if this is not done.

You've got to look, listen - and sniff - when choosing a rest home for yourself or your elderly mother or father, experts advise.

At 92 this year, Connie Bythell has had a full life. She grew up in Blenheim, worked as a teacher, went to India as a missionary, then worked in her home church until retiring at 70.

If people feel they are being treated as disposable units of labour then outcomes will suffer, writes Peter Lyons. This may help explain why the growth in labour productivity in NZ over the past few decades has been less than spectacular.

Moving in with nine flatmates takes a bit of getting used to when you're 73, says Alison Glen.

A successful building plan will result in a 10,000-home oversupply in Auckland, says NZIER.

For years, Allan Titford and his many supporters fashioned a dystopian and blatantly racist vision of New Zealand's future, writes Paul Moon.

This is Part 1 of a series of four articles on the role of business and how it may be changing as companies consider social and environmental concerns in the post-global financial crisis world.

A group of us went up to Kerikeri last weekend to run the Kerikeri Half Marathon.

NZ's child abuse rates are higher than anyone ever realised, officials admit, after bureaucrats bungled the numbers for more than two years.

The house on the corner site in Taniwha St, Glen Innes, is a case study of everything Housing NZ says is wrong with its state housing stock.

Most teen girls who are sexually abused blame themselves because they have ignored their parents' warnings, researchers have found.

Cross-party inquiry comes up with strong message for change from emphasis on caring for people late in life.

It's been one of the mildest flu seasons in 20 years, but the young, elderly and Pacific Island and Maori people are still at serious risk from the flu.

The Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus arrived in the Netherlands on Saturday to the delight of thousands of children.

A CYF caregiver has been humiliated after the organisation wrongly suggested she was being investigated for abuse of a child in her care.

Rent increases have made all low-income groups in Auckland except superannuitants worse off in real terms than they were five years ago, according to the Salvation Army.

Editorial: Mayor Len Brown's pursuit of a policy that would see the Auckland Council pay the "living wage" to its staff has drawn a variety of objections.

Our minimum wage is so low about 40 per cent of children living in poverty are not living in beneficiary families, but have low-wage-earning parents, writes Emily Keddell.

There's something rather heart-warming about the growing popularity of the "living wage" movement, writes Brian Rudman. Despite three decades of market economic indoctrination, NZ's underlying sense of fairness and decency remains intact.

Inequality in New Zealand is rising. This is a fact. Damien Grant looks into it.

New Zealand has been rated the fifth most prosperous nation to live in, according to an international report.

Men are closing life expectancy gap on women, and the concept of 'old' is due a rethink, says Peter Curson.