# Eldernet — Consumer Guide for Older People

**Source URL:** https://www.eldernet.co.nz/knowledge-lab/
**Publisher/Organisation:** Eldernet NZ (private directory/knowledge resource)
**Date accessed:** June 2026
**Publication date:** Regularly updated
**Folder/category:** 13 Consumer Guides
**Source type:** Web capture
**NZ-specific:** Yes
**Reliability rating:** Medium (useful directory but commercial; verify facts against official sources)

## Why this source matters

Eldernet is the most comprehensive online directory and knowledge resource for older people, families, and providers in New Zealand. It covers residential care vacancies, retirement village properties, and has a detailed Knowledge Lab with guides on moving into care, paying for care, legal matters, and end-of-life planning.

## Key Knowledge Lab topics

**Residential Care:**

- Moving into a rest home — overview and checklist
- Levels of care (rest home, hospital, dementia, psychogeriatric)
- Paying for care: RCS, loans, asset limits
- Choosing a care home: what to look for
- Rights and complaints

**Retirement Villages:**

- Thinking about a retirement village — start here
- ORA explained in plain language
- Costs, DMFs, and weekly fees
- Questions to ask before moving in
- Retirement Village Available Properties directory

**Home & Community:**

- Home support services overview
- Carer support options
- Equipment and modifications

**Legal & Financial:**

- Enduring Powers of Attorney
- Wills and estate planning
- NZ Super and other entitlements
- Asset testing for RCS

**End of Life:**

- Funeral planning
- Advance care planning
- Palliative care

## Current RCS asset limit (from Eldernet 2025-2026 data)

- Single homeowner: $271,030 (as at 2025-2026)
- Single non-homeowner: $1,271,030 (as at 2025-2026)

## Notes

Eldernet is a private company (not government). Their Knowledge Lab is well-maintained but cross-check critical facts (especially subsidy thresholds) against official Work and Income/MSD sources.