Resources

Kiwis have always had a love affair with owning their own home. In a Stuff article published last year, Trade Me property sales director Gavin Lloyd says there are two main reasons for that: “the enduring quarter-acre dream and the promise of big returns.” Yet as we get older, home …

For some, older age is an opportunity to cash in their chips and do everything they’ve ever wanted, using all the money they’ve saved in the process. Others, for example, see money as something that transfers across generations, and they will want to leave a little (or a lot) for their whānau to use in the future.

One resource that is particularly is the Four Rules of Thumb, created by the Retirement Income Interest Group of the New Zealand Society of Actuaries. It lays out four rules that can be used to determine how you could spend your retirement savings, accounting for the differences in people’s situations

Solicitor Marcia Read from Gibson Sheat Lawyers provides a legal perspective on assisted dying in New Zealand.

So, while a care home is your home, it might pay to think of it more as a flat or communal house.

While the choice to receive assisted dying is entirely up to the eligible person (in fact, it is against the law to pressure someone in any way, have you considered that the home you live in may not be the home you die in?

New Zealand’s health care sector is mobilising to prepare for a projected surge in the number of COVID patients isolating at home, including the development of a telehealth training model.

As COVID-19 restrictions are slowly lifted, people should plan to reconnect as soon as it is safe to do so, researchers say.

Palliative care consultant and writer Dr Kathryn Mannix has just released her latest book Listen: How to find the words for tender conversations. With permission from HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand, here is a short extract from Listen about how to get started when having difficult conversations. To win a copy …

For Beryl, having a specialist cancer nurse alongside during her journey made a world of difference. She talks about her experience with Cancer Society Auckland and Northland in our latest blog.