Sep-Oct 2016 Issue | Business View Oceania

199 AT A GLANCE WHO: Wensley House WHAT: A rest home and retirement village in a friendly environment WHERE: 49Wensley Road, Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand WEBSITE: wensleyhouse.co.nz which was expanded into a rest home facility a few years after its inception. Now, Wensley House has 30 bed- rooms in its rest home accommoda- tions and 13 studios for independ- ent living in the attached retirement village. It is situated in a large estate with beautiful, well-maintained garden within walking distance to the Rich- mond township and a short drive to the city of Nelson. Helen and Tony are very hands-on operators, taking on the roles of General Manager and Ac- counts Manager respectively as well as a variety of different jobs within the rest home and retirement village. Supporting residents in their everyday lives Their philosophy is simple yet stagger- ingly different frommany similar organ- izations. They strive to make Wensley House a true home for the residents, a place where they can go about their lives with all the extra support they may require in order to be comforta- ble. In there, every resident knows one another, they see each other on a daily basis, and are generally a close- knit community of neighbours. With a 100 percent occupancy, responding to the needs of every resident is a chal-