Retirement villages: Paradise or prison for older New Zealanders?

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Retirement villages: Paradise or prison for older New Zealanders?

25 October 2017

Ngaire Kerse

Ngaire Kerse and Kathy Peri

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 11:49 AM

Retirement villages offer security and residents have a sense of community

If there’s one thing in older age that gets everyone going, it’s talking about retirement villages. Are they good or bad, paradise or prison, good value or a rip off?

Older New Zealanders are flocking to retirement villages and filling them up In this column, we try to present some perspective and some facts (a, Population data

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References

1. New Zealand retirement village database. Whitepaper May 2014. Jones Lang LaSalle

2. Diamond T. Making gray gold: narratives of nursing home care. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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