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A good death? One man’s story in the aged care crisis

ANALYSIS: There seems to be little political appetite to correct society’s inadequate provision of care for people’s final days, months, and years.

WATCH: NZ Aged Care Association interim CEO Katherine Rich speaks with Dita De Boni.

Dita De Boni Mon, 02 Oct 2023

Back in 2006, Shoeshine found herself in a new mother’s group in Auckland with a German-New Zealander who had also just had her first baby. In chatting, we realised that her father, born in Germany in 1936, was called Adolf, while my father, born in Italy in 1938, was called Benito.

The reason for

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