Ngaio Marsh Retirement Village
Our retirement villages offer a range of care options - not as an add-on, but woven into the fabric of our villages.
Ngaio Marsh care centre offers the best of rest home and hospital care. Like all aspects of our villages, we constantly look for ways to improve both the care we provide and the innovation behind it. Care is customised using our myRyman Care app and residents love the food in our seasonal Delicious menu, which is prepared fresh on site by village chefs.
Ngaio Marsh is one of over 90% of Ryman villages that have been awarded 4-year certification by the Ministry of Health. It’s recognised as the ‘gold star’ standard in care.
Each Ryman village is named in honour of a Kiwi or Aussie trailblazer: Anthony Wilding, Lady Diana Isaac, Evelyn Page. They pushed further and set the bar high for others to aspire to. In creating communities that challenge the expectations of ageing, Ryman villages are also setting the bar high. They’re demonstrating that a retirement lifestyle brimming with new experiences, connections and fulfilment is something we should aspire to. Our Kiwi and Aussie namesakes represent the measure of inspiration, while Ryman villages represent the measure of retirement living.
Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982)
A revered writer and theatre director, Dame Ngaio Marsh DBE was born in Christchurch in 1895 and remains a prominent international name to this day. Highly regarded for her detective novels during the 1920s and ‘30s, Marsh is often praised as one of the ‘Queens of Crime’ alongside other writing greats like Agatha Christie.
The gifted author earned numerous awards throughout her fruitful career and is well known for the 32 crime fiction and detective novels she wrote between 1934 and 1982. Marsh was appointed a Dame Commander for her services to the arts in the 1966 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Marsh’s passion for theatre lives on today. The devoted director supported and sustained New Zealand’s theatre industry from its origins. She also spent time painting and acting, although writing and directing that was her true passion.
With a firm admiration for Shakespearean theatre, these were the plays that constituted the majority of the director’s repertoire. Marsh’s commanding, off-beat style of directing allowed even the most apprehensive actors to shine.
1965 saw Marsh write an autobiography named Black Beech and Honeydew, which was revised and updated in 1981. The compelling read commemorates this remarkably adept woman’s life and work.
