There have been four suspected suicides in the past two years at aged residential care facilities in the Bay of Plenty – three in the Western Bay and one in the Eastern Bay. The four residential care facility residents suspected of taking their own lives were all over the age of 65. Three of the deaths occurred between July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017, and one was between July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018. All four were suspected suicides as official confirmation was subject to a coronial process.
