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Tuesday 19 November 2013
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Kids rip off elderly parents Sons and daughters are draining the bank accounts of their elderly parents, says Age Concern, with around 50 reported cases in Nelson this year. Age Concern came forward with its concerns around elder abuse in Nelson and Tasman after reading the new chief medical officer’s comments about the region’s ageing population in last week’s Nelson Weekly. Age Concern Nelson manager Sue Tilby says Dr Nick Baker is spot on to highlight the issue and they are disturbed and concerned about the increasing number of abuse cases they are working on. This year alone the organisation has 65 proven cases of abuse in Nelson and Tasman, 14 of those for self-neglect, the rest by carers ripping off older people. “We see a huge amount of financial abuse here in Nelson, a huge amount,” says Sue. “It mainly comes from family members, in
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Page 29 Matt McCabe flips into the dive well at Nayland Park Pool on Saturday while Karl Radcliffe watches on. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
Dive pool back up and running
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fact 77 per cent is from sons and daughters ripping off their parents.” She says others befriend older people with an ulterior motive to rip them off. She says it’s hard to get the money back and in two separate cases this year they’ve seen one woman befriend a lonely elderly lady only to have massive cheques written for her. Because the woman signed the cheque they can’t get the money back. Another case was a carer who was given an elderly woman’s credit card and pin number. She used it to withdraw $25,000 for herself. Because the woman supplied her with her pin number, no charges were laid and the bank refused to
It’s bombs away at Nayland Park Pool. After a summer without access to the dive well, the opening of the new season welcomed its return with hundreds of people pin dropping, bombing, flipping and diving back into the most popular pool. Last year the dive well had to be closed due to leaks. Pipes were replaced and “a lot of work was done over the winter” according to facility manager Dave Mckenzie. Dave admits it was frustrating having to close the pool over that period. “We lost some of our clientele. The dive pool is a big pool for the teenagers,” he says. “But it’s all they want to use now. For the teenagers it’s [popular because] they’re jumping in the air, doing the classic bombs and plenty of tricks.” Nayland Park Pool is open seven days a week on Nayland Rd, Stoke.
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