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Maygrove among best of retirement living

Celebrations have rung out across Hopper Living retirement villages in recent weeks after the group scored multiple wins in NZ’s Best Retirement/Lifestyle Villages and Care Facilities Awards for 2025. In particular, the Enduring Excellence Award went to for Maygrove Village in Orewa (pictured above) which can toast 10 years of...

Celebrating retirement village and aged care excellence

Seniors New Zealand is proud to announce the winners and finalists of NZ’s Best Retirement/Lifestyle Villages and Care Facilities for 2025 recognising 50 standout facilities and four group providers across Aotearoa for exceptional resident experience, care quality and community life. Hopper Living has delivered one of the most comprehensive showings...

CaringStay

A NEW APPROACH TO THE MEDICAL LANDSCAPE Inspiration for CaringStay began back in 2021 when I spent time with my mum who lives in a spacious apartment in central Wellington. There, she has often hosted friends – or friends-of-friends – who’d been in hospital. They would stay for a few...

Spreading the care message

Government Ministers have been urged to stop hedging on major issues concerning this country’s seniors and, in many cases, all New Zealanders. When Grey Power president, Gayle Chambers and national secretary, Jo Miller, visited Parliament last month, they not only spoke with the Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, but also...

Backing Winston to beat the odds

A meeting between Grey Power delegates and Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters last month was a revelation. Mr Peters quickly revealed he had researched issues Grey Power president, Gayle Chambers and myself had indicated would be raised with him. Pleasingly, his comments and questions were far from dismissive; they aimed...

Aged Advisor awards honour industry stars

The 2024 Aged Advisor People’s Choice Awards for Best Retirement Village and Aged Care Facilities have been held every year for 10 years. They celebrate the best of the best across Aotearoa. Four North Island and four South Island gold winners were chosen this year naming Aged Care, Retirement &...

Life in a retirement village

After marketing retirement villages for some years, real estate consultant, Sandy Taylor, and her husband moved into a Hillsborough complex some six years ago. She reports that it has been the right move for them. On entering our senior years, my husband and I were keen for our family to...

Call for co-ordinated aged care agencies

Grey Power’s presence at this recent Health Select Committee meeting was to further support our submission to the aged care inquiry. (See submission on the Federation website). Our review of many similar submissions showed there appears to be little collaboration between multiple services to Kiwi seniors; in other words, skilled...

Premium aged care unaffordable for many

Aged care residents live in one of two very different worlds. Those who can (for the moment) afford thousands of dollars to pay for rooms with ensuites and garden views and those who can’t. If the nearly 40,000 Kiwis’ living in aged care facilities all lived in one place, the...

Retirement Village Living: Weighing the pros and cons

As New Zealand’s population ages, the demand for retirement villages is steadily increasing. This means advising on retirement village agreements has become a core part of the work by elder law specialists. Because communities offer a blend of independent living choices with the added benefits of support and healthcare, they...
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