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Multiple failures have been found during an unannounced inspection in Cambridge.

Nurses were forced to change patients' dressings with 'dying torchlight' after power cuts.

A rest home nurse has won over $31,000 after the ERA said found she was wrongly sacked.

Hastings rest home Gracelands and Auckland's boutique Lynton Lodge Hospital have won the first independent awards for North Island rest homes based on residents' and relatives' reviews.

The country's major rest home chains are facing a legal battle over pay as the unions representing aged care workers bring proceedings under the Equal Pay Act.

The Human Rights Commission is calling for a star-rating system that would expose poorly performing rest homes to help families avoid them.

Here are a sample of readers' emails in response to our series on rest homes.

A former rest home manager is calling for better care for the elderly after her father was "starved of food and fluid" in a Whakatane centre.

You've got to look, listen - and sniff - when choosing a rest home for yourself or your elderly mother or father, experts advise.

At 92 this year, Connie Bythell has had a full life. She grew up in Blenheim, worked as a teacher, went to India as a missionary, then worked in her home church until retiring at 70.

The chief executive of the Aged Care Associations Martin Taylor joins us at midday today to answer your questions about the aged care industry.

Moving in with nine flatmates takes a bit of getting used to when you're 73, says Alison Glen.

At 95, Lilian Robinson is blazing a new path for older Kiwis who want to stay out of rest homes.

Elderly people needing home care in north and west Auckland are waiting up to a year to get help - ironically because a new, improved assessment system takes longer.

Caregivers do tasks few could stomach, often for minimal wages, report Simon Collins and Martin Johnston.

One of the country's biggest rest homes has been stung for letting two elderly residents lose a substantial amount of weight without proper intervention.

A rest home where a nurse was accused of threatening an elderly woman with being committed to a mental institution says it has made major changes and provides high-quality care.

An official website providing rest-home audits has been revamped to help people find aged care facilities wherever they live in the country.

"It's not a commodity you're dealing with, it's humans." Lloyd Dean fears the Edmund Hillary Retirement Village in Remuera failed to learn the lessons of his dad's death.

An outbreak of scabies infestations at a rest home wasn't managed properly for nine months, an official investigation has found.