Avon Lifecare (Family Owned)
Linwood, ChristchurchCanterbury
In short
- Offers rest home and dementia care.
- A standard room costs at most $1,556.80 a week here, the Ministry of Health's price cap (maximum contribution).
- Rooms free now, as the home reported on 15 October 2026, 7:11am.
- Care offered
- Rest home, Dementia
- Rooms free
- Free nowupdated 15 October 2026, 7:11am
- Certificate
- 48 monthsends 21 January 2028
- Certified beds
- 108
- Standard room cap
- $1,556.80a week, from 1 July 2026
- Premium rooms
- Not checkedmost homes do not publish it
Care offered
- Rest home
- Dementia
Vacancies
- Standard rooms
- Free now
- Care suites (under an occupation right agreement)
- None listed
Updated 15 October 2026, 7:11am by the home on Eldernet. Call to confirm before you visit.
What it costs
Standard room: capped at $1,556.80 a week in Christchurch City from 1 July 2026 (the Ministry of Health's maximum contribution), source.
We matched this home to Christchurch City by its town, Christchurch. Health New Zealand tells each home the rate that applies to it, so ask the home to confirm.
The cap is what a standard room costs, whether you pay yourself or the Residential Care Subsidy pays, and it is the same for rest home, hospital and dementia care. Premium rooms and care suites cost more, and most homes do not publish those extra charges, so ask for them in writing. How care home prices work.
Some people qualify for the Residential Care Subsidy (government help with the cost of long-term care), which is means-tested and assessed by Work and Income. Who qualifies.
Certification and audits
- Certification period
- 48 months
- Certificate ends
- 21 January 2028
- Certified beds
- 108
The Ministry grants 48 months for a clean record.
Services certified
- Rest home care
- Geriatric (hospital level)
- Medical (hospital level)
- Dementia care
- Auditor
- BSI Group New Zealand Ltd
- Certified as
- Avon Lifecare Limited - Avon Life Care, 437 Armagh Street Linwood Christchurch 8011
Audit summaries
- Latest audit summary, November 2025 PDF, 154 KB
- Audit summary, September 2023 PDF, 202 KB
- Audit summary, February 2022 PDF, 138 KB
- Audit summary, July 2020 PDF, 114 KB
2 older summaries are on the Ministry page.
Source: the Ministry of Health page for this home, read 15 and 16 October 2026.
Retirement villages nearby
- Avon Lifecare (Family Owned) on site or next door
- Maryville Courts Village | Christchurch 1.7 km away
Where this comes from
- Address
- 437 Armagh Street, Linwood, Christchurch
- Phone
- (03) 982 2165 ext 2
- Region
- Canterbury
- Source: Eldernet listing (avon-lifecare), read 15 and 16 October 2026 (listing, care levels, vacancies)
- Source: Ministry of Health certification page, read 15 and 16 October 2026 (certificate, beds, audits)
- Source: Ministry of Health maximum contribution notice, read 15 and 16 October 2026 (standard room cap)
Confidence: high for care levels and contact details, which the home lists itself, and for certification, which is the Ministry's own record. Vacancies change daily.
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