ElDEr Law
What is Elder Law in New Zealand
New Zealand's increasingly ageing population has given rise to a change in our population structure: the baby boom generation, who are healthier, wealthier and better educated than earlier generations, who are now boosting the over 65 age group.
A number of legal complexities arise for our ageing population and about which we can provide advice to assist in planning and solving problems to reduce stress for older people. These include issues arising from legislation affecting right, duties and powers for older people as well as the general law as it impacts on older people. These complexities include:
A number of legal complexities arise for our ageing population and about which we can provide advice to assist in planning and solving problems to reduce stress for older people. These include issues arising from legislation affecting right, duties and powers for older people as well as the general law as it impacts on older people. These complexities include:
- Blended families
- Geographic dispersal giving rise to distant caring for and by family members
- Funding and Financing retirement
- Health Care and Rights
- Disabilities
- Discrimination on the grounds of age
- Employment discrimination
- Benefits and Pensions
- Accident Compensation
- Wills and Estates and Trusts
- Trust Administration
- Enduring Power of Attorney for Personal Care and Welfare; and for Property Matters
- Residential Care Subsidies
- Grandparents caring for grandchildren
- Retirement Villages
- Rest Homes
- Protection from Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Elder Exploitation
We are able to assist you in all Elder Law areas. Please do not hesitate to contact us for assistance and advice.
If you would like to instruct us to act for you in matters pertaining to Elder Law matters you can click here to access our page for you to make initial contact, and we will respond as soon as possible.
Did Lewis Carroll say it all:
"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
"You are old," said the youth, "As I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
Pray, what is the reason of that?"
"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment—one shilling a box--
Allow me to sell you a couple?"
"You are old," said the youth, "And your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
Pray, how did you manage to do it?"
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
What made you so awfully clever?"
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father; "don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
"You are old," said the youth, "As I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
Pray, what is the reason of that?"
"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment—one shilling a box--
Allow me to sell you a couple?"
"You are old," said the youth, "And your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
Pray, how did you manage to do it?"
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
What made you so awfully clever?"
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father; "don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"