Tag Archives: residential care

‘Care apartments’, also sometimes known as care suites, residential care suites, care in a village, serviced apartments and other similar sounding terms are a relatively new type of service. Care apartments allow people who reside in them to live independently with the knowledge that if or when they need to …

There is a new fitness craze sweeping residential care centers across the world – silent discos. A silent disco is an event where people dance to music listened to on wireless headphones. Rather than using a speaker system, music is broadcast via Bluetooth with the signal being picked up by wireless headphone receivers worn by …

New Zealand’s aged care sector is experiencing a chronic nursing shortage and we now have a crisis situation on our hands. Immigration laws and procedures have made recruiting nurses from overseas tougher while our local nurses are leaving residential aged care in droves to take up higher paying positions in …