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Research shows that most people enjoy a high level of satisfaction when living in a Retirement Village. Villages vary greatly – you’ll notice different sized villages; from very few units to some with hundreds; possibly different types of units within the same complex; newer villages and older villages. You will …

Press Release A new tablet to benefit the elderly is due to roll out across a retirement village in Remuera, Auckland, but it’s not the kind you swallow. Rawhiti Estate is the first retirement village in the world to combine tablet-based technology and employee communication tools that help take the …

Press Release New commissioned artworks by sculptor Paul Dibble and renowned painter Karl Maughan will soon find a home in a location with a difference in a project described as “visionary”. Rawhiti Estate, a new BeGroup retirement village in Remuera, will feature the commissioned works alongside an additional 60 prints …

While village living is not for everyone, research shows that, while living in a Retirement Village most people enjoy a high level of satisfaction. If village life is an option you are considering, then there are some things you need to know so that your experience can be positive too. …

When we are young and carefree, none of us really look towards getting to our twilight years, because we think it’s way off in the distance and we won’t really get old. Getting old is for old people. Then we get past our forties and start wondering how it went …

A recent article in The Press highlighted the issue of “social isolation” in the elderly in Christchurch. The article estimated that at least 7000 elderly people in Christchurch are living in chronically lonely conditions where they sometimes don’t see people for days. This issue is not isolated to Christchurch. Depression …