Retirement villages: Paradise or prison for older New Zealanders?

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Retirement villages: Paradise or prison for older New Zealanders?

Ngaire Kerse

Ngaire Kerse

Ngaire Kerse and Kathy Peri
Elderly couple
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
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.