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Ageing and Retirement

Coronavirus restrictions are changing funeral rituals

August 30, 2025April 30, 2020 by Saimi

Social distancing measures have spurred new ways of thinking about funerals.

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags Article news, coronavirus donate, coronavirus topic

InvoCare plans backdown on misleading late payment fees

August 30, 2025February 7, 2020 by Saimi
waverley cemetary at sunrise

Funeral giant plans to remove a $352 ‘administration fee’ from invoices.

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags Article news

The future of funerals: natural burial, home vigils, DIY coffins and more

August 30, 2025December 6, 2019 by Saimi
Funerals part 4 DIY funeral lead

In the final of our 4-part series on the funeral industry, we look at the trends disrupting the status quo.

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags Article investigation

Funeral giant invoices for late payment fees – before you’re late

August 30, 2025November 22, 2019 by Saimi
older man signing forms with funeral director

A $352 ‘administration fee’ is a troubling inclusion on InvoCare invoices. 

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags Article investigation

Have the recent retirement village reforms gone far enough? NSW waits and watches

August 30, 2025October 31, 2019 by Andy Kollmorgen
australian street retirment village

One critical NSW reform hangs in the balance. Will the industry get what it wants, or will residents win the day? 

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags Article investigation

Should you get a prepaid funeral?

August 30, 2025October 3, 2019 by Saimi
lots of flowers on a coffin at a funeral the hidden costs of a funeral

Part 3 of our investigation: How well-meaning advance payments fuel a questionable funeral-plan industry worth billions.

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags Article investigation

How much do funerals cost?

September 20, 2019 by Saimi
funeral items including hearse flowers urn and candle

In the second of our four-part investigation into the funeral industry, we look at how much funerals cost, and how businesses control the way we grieve.

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags Article investigation, Fact check

New funeral cost disclosure regulations announced for NSW

August 30, 2025August 30, 2019 by CHOICE staff
headstones at waverly cemetery

Price transparency laws strengthened after CHOICE investigation.

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags Article news

Did the changes to the age pension asset test leave you poorer?

August 30, 2025July 4, 2019 by Andy Kollmorgen
elderly couple walking on the beach

If so, there may be ways for you to get some of your money back.

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags Article explainer, News

Do you need a funeral director?

August 30, 2025June 6, 2019 by Saimi
Coffin club women building coffins

In the first of our four-part investigation into the funeral industry, we look at DIY funerals and cremation.

Categories Ageing and Retirement, Health and Body, Healthy Ageing Tags chart
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