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Win a copy of The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire - The World of Dan and Phil

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Win a copy of The Doll's House - Eldernet Gazette

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A young woman wakes up in a cold, dark cellar, with no idea how she got there or who her kidnapper is. So begins her terrible nightmare.
Nearby, the body of another young woman is discovered buried on a remote beach. But the dead girl was never reported missing - her estranged family having received regular texts from her over the years. Someone has been keeping her alive from beyond the grave.
For Detective Inspector Helen Grace it's chilling evidence that she's searching for a monster who is not just twisted but also clever and resourceful - a predator who's killed before.
And as Helen struggles to understand the killer's motivation, she begins to realise that she's in a desperate race against time . . .

Win a Trilogy Age Proof Replenishing Night Cream - Eldernet Gazette

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After much discussion around great products available for older people available here in NZ I contacted the lovely team at Trilogy to see what all the fuss was about - I was in luck!
The team were absolutely lovely to work with and kindly gifted us with a review product and also a prize giveaway!
It definitely was a contender in the Eldernet office who would get to reap the rewards and lucky Dawn got her name picked out of the hat. What better way to send her off on her retirement!
Here is the Trilogy Age Proof Replenishing Night Cream – a good night’s sleep in a pot.
60ml RRP $62.90 Available from selected Farmers, pharmacy, departments and health stores nationwide. For more information on Trilogy and their products please visit www.trilogyproducts.com

Win a copy of Madness Made Me - Eldernet Gazette

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Question: Mary, in 'Madness Made Me' you challenge readers to... "Imagine services that are run like democracies, with power coming from the bottom up. Mad people are the drivers of their own recovery and mental health workers support them from the passenger seat. Mad people also lead in the development and delivery of services -as politicians, bureaucrats, CEOs, psychiatrists, team leaders, peer workers and the rest. Madness is seen as a qualification, not something to be kept in the closet." How can older people achieve this?Mary O’Hagan: One of the first things to consider when looking at older people’s mental health is that a lot of mental health problems start when a person is young. Everyone is different but people with labels like bipolar, schizophrenia and major depression often find their problems tend to peter out over the course of their lifetime. Issues for older people around their mental health tend to depression related to grief and loss of valued roles and dementia.
The big tension that goes on in the helping system is the families that want safety for their loved ones. You can see this with younger people with mental health problems and it is no different with older people. The system at both ends of life is over zealous ensuring security and under zealous in ensuring autonomy. The individuals that use the system tend to be much more interested in their autonomy than other people’s attempts to keep them safe. They should be fully engaged in the design of services so that they are more responsive their needs as they see them.
When older relatives start to burn pots or get into little accidents driving the response tends to be to take the cooking and driving away from them. Older people do not always want that. How can we support people to do what they want? The problem is the helping services are accountable for ensuring safety rather than autonomy so they system is not geared to meet their wishes.
Psychosis seems to be perceived by the community as a threat for the younger people that live with it. Older people generally do not have to contend with that and are seen to be generally more of a threat to themselves. There is a real sense of loss of status as a person ages and when you add a bit of depression or dementia this can make this loss of status worse.
I see a really distressing use of anti-psychotic drugs amongst older people. Anti-psychotics are often used as a management tool to keep people quiet. We need to turn our systems around to help the older people retain their autonomy while at the same time reassuring anxious families and communities. We need to overcome the fear based system.
About Mary O’Hagan
After her journey through madness, Mary O’Hagan realised the mental health system and society did more harm than good. Madness Made Me is a myth-busting account of madness and our customary responses to it through the lens of lived experience. O’Hagan’s journey took her from the psychiatric hospital to the United Nations and many places in between as a leader in the international mad movement. Her fundamental message is that madness is a profoundly disruptive but full human experience. The trouble is most people don’t see it that way, from the experts who make up clever theories about brain disease to the people down the road who have irrational fears about the mentally ill. Madness Made Me is a compelling and beautifully written book that uncovers widespread injustice. It ends with vision for a world that holds hope for people with mental distress and treats them with respect and humanity.
If you would like to win a copy of Mary's book for yourself, CLICK HERE . Competition closes 24/5/15 and is open to NZ residents only.

Win a copy of 'The Girls' - Eldernet Gazette

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Halfway through this book I thought to myself, “man, I’m really loving this book. I wonder what else she’s written I need to read more.”, and then when I read the other titles I smiled – I have already read other books by this author and really enjoyed them!
Lisa Jewell, in my mind, is better than Marian Keyes and the likes. This is a ‘thinking girls’ chick lit. It’s easy to read, but the characters are really well developed, the story not quite guessable, the tone light (even when covering dark subjects like this novel does) but somehow still gutsy enough to feel not too ‘fluffy’. She is immensely enjoyable to read.
This novel covers the attack of a young girl one night at a neighbourhood party. The novel begins with this scene so I’m not giving anything away. We then we go back in time to discover the relationships and situations of the characters. And what a colourful cast they are! There’s something, or rather someone, in here for everyone.
There’s also more than one ‘mystery’ to solve and keep you entranced. This is a great technique and the revelations of their mysteries is slightly staggered too so you’re not kept guessing for too long – one of my pet hates!
One of the issues of a mystery or thriller type of novel can be the level of violence that is portrayed – this is very delicately handled in this novel and those with a week stomach for blood and gore can rest assured that this is handled with a delicate hand and is not a reason to discard this book from your ‘must read’ pile.
I stayed up, in front of the fire, sipping Baileys for four hours after my husband had gone to bed just to finish this book – and it was worth every minute. I can’t wait to read more of this author and really encourage you all to read this one, and if you love it read more of her work – she’s a star!
To win your own copy . Competition closes 22/7/15 and is open to NZ residents only.

Win a copy of Circling the Sun by Paula McLain - Eldernet Gazette

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Another book without a review copy! So it’s the same story here, I can’t tell you if it’s any good or not – I need you to tell me!
Here is a blurb from the publisher’s website:
As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority, allowing her first to run wild on their farm, then incarcerating her in the classroom. The scourge of governesses and serial absconder from boarding school, by the age of sixteen Beryl had been catapulted into a disastrous marriage - but it was in facing up to this reality that she took charge of her own destiny. Scandalizing high society with her errant behaviour, she left her husband and became the first woman ever to hold a professional racehorse trainer's licence. After falling in with the notoriously hedonistic and gin-soaked Happy Valley set, Beryl soon became embroiled in a complex love triangle with the writer Karen Blixen and big game-hunter Denys Finch Hatton (immortalized in Blixen's memoir Out of Africa). It was this unhappy affair which set tragedy in motion, while awakening Beryl to her truest self, and to her fate: to fly.
Competition closes 4/8/15 and is open to NZ residents only. Good Luck!

Win a copy of Zero Zero Zero by Robert Savino - Eldernet Gazette

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Unfortunately we did not get the normal review copy with this books so I can’t tell you if its any good or not – you will have to tell me!
Here is a blurb from the publisher’s website:
In many countries, 'zero zero' or double zero flour is the finest, best flour on the market. Among narco-traffickers, then, 'zero zero zero' is the nickname for the very purest, highest quality grade of cocaine. It is also the title of Roberto Saviano's unforgettable, internationally bestselling exploration of the inner workings of the world of drugs and dirty money – its rules and armies – the true depth of its reach and, by extension, its grasp on us all.
From Mexican cartels to Milanese financiers, Guatemalan mercenaries to Ukrainian warlords, Calabrian traffickers to Wall Street traders who wash the money clean, this is a story that goes around the globe and through every level of society, beginning in the city of London: the 'narco-trafficking, money-laundering capital of the world'.
Weaving together stories, interviews, wiretaps and his own experience of the criminal underworld, Saviano reveals an international narco-state, which, in the wake of the financial crisis, is now the keystone of our global economy. It is the perfect synthesis of modern capitalism, where everything is for the taking – and all is consumed, ruined and destroyed.
To enter the competition, CLICK HERE . Competition closes 4/8/15 and is open to NZ residents only. Good Luck!
-Sarah

Win a copy of Born to Fly - Eldernet Gazette

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Question One: How have Helicopters developed and sustained rural life in New Zealand?Bill Reid: Helicopters have been used in agriculture since the earliest days of their introduction to this country. For the first few years the only work they managed to pick up was gorse and thistle spraying on back country blocks too steep for fixed wing aircraft to handle. Gradually as people began to realise the potential of the helicopter many more roles were added such as flying in fencing materials, mustering, sheep raking and feeding out after heavy snows, boundary surveys, aerial photography to aid farm planning, seeding and topdressing, wild animal control of goats, deer, pigs, wallabies and even wild turkeys by aerial shooting, poisoning rabbits and possums etc, burn offs in rough country and aiding in the planting of pine plantations or establishing new pasture, flying in radio repeaters to maintain communications on large high country stations. I am sure I could go on and think of more but I think it proves the helicopter has become indispensable to rural New Zealand.
Question Two: What is it like to fight a big fire?Bill Reid:Actually quite exhilarating. Although often they are associated with high winds and pretty bad turbulence, made even worse by the heat from the fire, most pilots I know jump at the chance when called. The feeling when it is over knowing you made a difference is very satisfying and helps engender a great friendship with the other fire-fighters.
Question Three: When you first visited Papua New Guinea you flew over pristine tropical rainforest. How does having such a bird's eye view affect your perspective of how we should manage our natural resources?Bill Reid: Flying over pristine tropical rainforest in PNG is really no different from flying over Virgin native beech forest in NZ, they look pretty much the same from the air. You just know in the tropics the trees are a lot taller. I think we have got the balance pretty right in this country between development and conservation. It would be virtually impossible for a mining company to wreak the havoc that they have in some third world countries.
I think the biggest threat to our forests now apart from possums is climate change. I don't think there is any doubt now that our weather patterns are becoming more severe. Springs and autumns have become much windier and in the last few years we have had major storms that have decimated huge tracts of native forest. The storm that hit the country just this last winter will take centuries to fully recover from. When you consider that a lot of the trees in our native forests are up to 400 years old you would think that previous wind events would still be evident, especially from the air.
I cannot think of anywhere in the country where there is evidence of anything like this having happened in the last few hundred years. When you fly down the west coast of the South Island now all the way from the Heaphy down to Haast it looks like an atom bomb has been let off in some places. Quite scary!
Bill can you tell me a bit more about the photo of the helecopter nearing the rig…
It is my Father John Reid approaching the Sedco 135F Drilling Rig off the Taranaki coast. In a Bell 47- J2A in the early days of oil exploration. Note no hearing protection in those days!

Win a Copy of Primal Kitchen - Eldernet Gazette

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In Primal Kitchen Wellington chef and primal-eating enthusiast Sarah Dueweke shares recipes for delicious breakfasts, lunches, dinners and energising snacks for sustained good health.
With its emphasis on natural ingredients and meals high in protein and healthy fats and carbohydrates, primal eating offers the benefits of a paleo diet with fewer restrictions. Full-fat dairy products, including butter, cheese, yoghurt and milk, are allowed in limited quantities, as is alcohol and some starchy fruit and vegetables. By substituting grains such as wheat, corn and rice for 'primal-friendly' alternatives and eliminating refined sugars in favour of natural sweeteners, Sarah's innovative recipes show how you can enjoy home baking and treat foods and still find weight maintenance easy. Slow-cooked casseroles, hearty salads and power-packed breakfasts are so satisfying and delicious they are sure to prove popular with family and friends.
By following Sarah's simple guidelines for a primal diet you'll find it simple to adapt everyday dishes and discover new favourites in the process.
Penguin Random House
RRP $40.00
Review from Eliza in the Eldernet office:
I should start by saying that Sarah Dueweke is a chef and ‘primal-eating’ advocate; essentially a paleo diet without too many restrictions such as allowing in moderation alcohol, dairy and starchy fruit and vegetables.
The idea has been around for quite some time and I’ve always been enthusiastic to see how the recipes match up against the tried and true so I thought I’d test out several favourites and see how they tasted.
My first test was the Shepherd’s Pie, always a favourite in our house. The first thing that struck me, as it has with all the recipes I tested, was the ingredient list seemed small. I’m no chef by any stretch of the imagination and a small ingredient list appeals to me on all sorts of levels. Suffice to say the pie was delicious and I quickly followed up this recipe with the Smoky Slow-cooker Pulled Pork with Parsnip Puree, which proved to be if not more flavoursome than the Shepherd’s Pie.
Feeling that I definitely caught on to a winner, I then tried the Chocolate Mocha Mousse. My son, Isaac is addicted to chocolate mousse and in our house acts as an expert in such matters. His response was a resounding lip-smacking two thumbs up! Even if he did bounce off the walls a little with the addition of cold coffee.
Overall I was thoroughly impressed and would certainly like to try out more recipes. For me every recipe was simple and delicious, without the need for any sort of extra kitchen knowledge (which sadly I don’t possess in any great depth!). I would recommend this to any cook who likes to prepare delicious food without too much fuss and with ingredients that advocate for a cleaner healthier diet.
Enter HERE to win your own copy. Please note that this competition is open to NZ residents only and closes 21/8/15

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Unbreakable Spirit Facing the challenge of cancer in New Zealand
McKenzie Publishing $34.99
Karen, Unbreakable Spirit shares the stories of people who have survived cancer and of those who are terminally ill. Did you find that people who were able to accept their diagnosis enjoyed a better quality of life than those who battled to come to terms with their disease?Most definitely. All the people I interviewed who accepted their diagnosis had a much better quality of life. They focussed on getting through their treatments and back to ‘normal’ life. Or if terminally ill, they focused on whatever meant the most to them for their remaining time. More often than not spending quality time with loved ones, but sometimes finishing off some project of lasting legacy, such as a memoir, videos or letters for the family. They weren’t wasting time and negative energy fighting their diagnosis.
You also share the story of people who have had loved one die from cancer. How valuable is grief counselling for older people?I think for anyone who feels stuck at some stage of the grief cycle, counselling is invaluable for anybody, regardless of age.
Your interviews with hospice workers, oncologists, GPs, a counsellor, surgeon and breast physician provide insight into the reality of what it means to be a health professional serving people who manage cancer. What do you think helps make such a career sustainable long term?From my interviews, several factors stood out. Firstly, the sense of personal satisfaction they got from the job. Many found it extremely rewarding to be saving lives or to be enhancing someone’s life in some way. Another factor was getting to a stage where they had the skills to do the job well, and to be empathic but to achieve some professional distance. It was also crucial to get the support of their peers, to be able to discuss problems with them, or even have professional counselling. Many also mentioned the importance of exercise, holidays and having interests outside their profession.
Karen, you also share your story about managing breast cancer. With so many stakeholders giving advice on how to manage cancer how did you decide whose advice to follow and not feel anxious that you are not adhering to other suggestions?I think the key is to find a GP you trust and respect when you are healthy and well – as they are the pivotal person who will see you through your journey with cancer. Also, I had been going to the same breast clinic for many years before being diagnosed with breast cancer. I had built up a relationship of trust with my breast physician, long before the day she had to deliver bad news. I immediately liked my surgeon and my oncologist. All of them worked closely as a team and had many multi-disciplinary meetings to discuss my case. I felt extremely confident with their advice, and I wasn’t presented with conflicting information from my team.
It was easy to ignore the advice from non-medical people at this time. My health professionals were giving me excellent, researched information. When presented with alternative ideas that someone that a friend of a friend had apparently benefited from, I found myself thinking, where’s the studies or data to support this? It seemed that much of this advice came from wishful thinking or ignorance.
I was lucky that I had such wonderful health professionals looking after me – but if I wasn’t comfortable with anyone I would have asked to see someone else. I think it is crucially important to feel comfortable with the people who are treating you, especially the key people like your surgeon and oncologist.
If you would like to win your own copy of Karen's book, CLICK HERE . PLease note, competition closes 8/9/15 and is open to NZ residents only

Win a copy of The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire - The World of Dan and Phil - Eldernet Gazette

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The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire – The World of Dan and Phil
Ebury Press
RRP $35.00
Not sure what to buy the grandkids, great-grand kids or YouTube addict in your family…this might well be the answer.
Dan and Phil are YouTube stars – which means that millions, yes millions, of people watch videos that they put on the internet.
I’d never heard of them – but a quick search revealed, well, everything. There two make videos about anything and everything – trying out new food, embarrassing moments, playing video games…it’s all there; and it’s somewhat strangely addictive.
The book is a multi-media sort of make up with photos, interviews, pictures…all sorts – it’s a book for non-book readers and perfect for those who depend on an internet connected device to survive the day but might find that they’re going to a wi-fi free zone for the summer holiday.
If you’d like to see more about those loons try clicking below:
https://www.youtube.com/user/danisnotonfire
https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazingPhil
https://www.youtube.com/user/DanAndPhilGAMES
https://www.youtube.com/user/danisnotinteresting
And don’t blame me if you end up wasting hours watching something (or rather nothing), that will in no way enhance your life.
To win your own copy of the book, CLICK HERE. Competition closes 4/11/15 and is open to NZ residents only.
Good Luck!