And that's ONE News for Wednesday. Now here's Close Up. Tonight on Close Up ` Would you work in a rest home for the same money as a working in a supermarket? It's not just here for the money, but that's for our love and respect. Think what happens to the elderly is someone else's worry? They'll rely on us. The wake-up call that will affect every single one of us. I don't think any sort of dollars would reimburse what they do. Due to the live nature of Close Up, captions for some items may be incomplete. ONE News captions by John Ling and Pippa Jefferies. Close Up captions by Hannah Reynolds and Hugo Snell. Make no mistake, there's a tsunami coming, a silver tsunami. Over the next few years the number of elderly is going to rocket up by hundreds of thousands. Who's going to look after them? Right now we don't have the facilities or workers to cope. Would you be prepared to wash and toilet our elderly for the same pay as working in a supermarket? Something has to change. Our parents and grandparents could be left in the lurch. Here's Gill Higgins. LAID-BACK MUSIC The baby boomers are hitting old age. In 10 years' time, there'll be another 200,000 elderly. So, will there be room for those who need looking after? Across the country, occupancy's just increasing all of the time. So, how full are your rest homes at the moment? This one's running at 100%, and most of our facilities are running at just about 100% all of the time. ALL: One, two, three. Forecasts are that we'll need between a third and half as many beds again as there are at the moment. Oh, the Queen ` doesn't she look lovely. Rest home care is for those who really need it. Totally different from retirement villages where apartments are bought for around $500,000 a piece. Gwen, we're going to your room, eh. Remember Posh Spice the other week? If you don't, here's a reminder. Ooh, not happy. But she can look happier. There you go. Something's put a smile on her face, and my guess is it was something pretty disgusting found discarded on the field of a Hawke's Bay farm. But Posh loves it, apparently, so we sent Matt Chisholm to investigate. Warning ` this story is a challenge for the squeamish. LAMB BLEATS Most farmers do it as pocket money for the kids. Most farmers do it as pocket money for the kids. And I know that there is a few rugby clubs that do it as fund-raisers. It's normally just an unwanted by-product,... It would just be sitting here going rotten and going to waste. ...but the common sheep placenta is now in hot demand. Helen, you've provided the placenta. Do you go in for a placenta facial yourself? I haven't as yet, but who knows. Angela might twist my arm, knowing Angela. (LAUGHS) That'll do. Cut. (LAUGHS) Here's another one, Kyle. It must have been a set of twins. Angela, why would anyone want anything like this on their face? It's full of all sorts of growth factors and amino acids and it might look a bit disgusting, but there's lots of good stuff in there, so don't discard it. It's so good, Posh Spice and other big-name celebs are now paying nearly $700 for facial treatments, and only products made from NZ sheep placenta will do. Anything that Posh Spice wants, everybody wants, and so it's been really good for our business. When it came out that she was using sheep placenta, our enquiry rate has just become horrendous. It's just been amazing. So why is it good for your skin? Because it's rich in nutrients and especially growth factors. Growth factors are the big buzzword in the industry at the moment, and they accelerate everything that a cell does. Is this superstition or is it based on proven results? This is based on proven results. It's not superstition. There's plenty of clinical work that's been done, and there are thousands and thousands, millions and millions of doses of sheep placenta consumed across the world. I don't know if I'd like that on my face, I'm gonna have to be honest with you. It's actually significantly refined, and it looks nothing like that by the time you get it on your face. But, uh, you wait. This afternoon, you'll love it. (LAUGHS) Alrighty. Now I'm going to mix up the placenta mixture, so starting off here with a little bit of a hydrating mask. I would eventually put my hand up for a sheep placenta facial, but not until I had checked out the processing of the raw material, which wasn't for the faint-hearted. Does it take a special type of person to work here? Uh, it takes someone who doesn't mind a bit of squeamishness. Agri-lab in the Hawke's Bay is the only NZ company processing placenta from live animals. They process 100 ton a year, employ up to 20 people in the height of the season and turn over more than $1m. NZ, and Waipukurau in particular, is now the placenta capital of the world. Here the placentas are cleaned and inspected, sterilised and freeze-dried before being converted into a powder or capsule for human consumption or a serum for skin products. This is what the sheep placenta ended up like. This is a very concentrated serum, and other companies will buy this and put this into their cosmetics. The bulk of it is going to Malaysia, Canada, United States. We Kiwis aren't so keen, but they say demand is slowly growing. Are you a bit of a Posh Beckham yourself? (LAUGHS) Well, take a look. (LAUGHS) With Helen from down on the farm not interested today, I thought I'd put myself in the clinical nurse's chair for a half-hour $150 placenta facial. You won't feel any tingling. It's not like an acid or anything; it's a very mild alkaline solution. So you're just applying the product from the afterbirth on my face right now? Yes. Smeared in afterbirth. How's it feel? Feels nice. Who's going in for this? Predominantly women and women with ageing concerns, photodamage from the sun and ladies that are noticing fine lines and wrinkles are wanting lots of repair work done. Have you given your husband a treatment? (LAUGHS) No, I wouldn't be allowed to say if I had. (LAUGHS) But he wouldn't be the first man to have one done. Am I the first bloke that you've`? No, you're not, but I don't get many. And despite being sceptical, I was well impressed with my first facial, placenta and all. It certainly felt remarkably good going through the process, anyway. Have you had a wee feel? Oh yeah, that's nice. Mm. Much better. That is really smooth, isn't it? Like a baby's bottom. BOTH CHUCKLE Just ahead ` from a Dunedin design room to news-stands all over the world. We talk live to the students making headlines. We all like to think we can punch above our weight. Tonight we want to celebrate three Kiwis doing just that. This image appeared on the front cover of Dunedin's Critic. The magazine has a circulation of 19,000, but someone at Newsweek must be a fan. The big guys came calling, wanting the same for themselves. And take a look. Here's a preview of their next issue. It's a massive coup for the Otago guys. Newsweek reaches 14 million people. Critic designer Sam Clark and editor Joe Stockman join me now from Dunedin. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? DID YOU FLICK A COPY OFF TO NEWSWEEK AND THEY CAME BACK TO YOU? NOTHING QUITE THAT DRAMATIC. WHAT HAPPENED IS IT GOT PICKED UP BY A DUTCH BLOG CALLED COVERJUNKIE COVER JUNKIE? IT'S A CELEBRATION OF COOL COVERS AROUND THE WORLD AND THEY LIKED IT AND GOT IN TOUCH. THEY DECIDED THEY LIKED IT AND GOT IN TOUCH VIA EMAIL IT'S NOT PARTICULARLY UNUSUAL TO FARM OUT WORK TO OTHER ARTISTS THEY LOOK AROUND THE WORLD TO WHAT THEY CAN GET. THERE WERE THREE OF YOU INVOLVED IN THIS. DID ONE OF YOUR COLLEAGUES CELEBRATE TOO MUCH? A BIT TOO MUCH LAST NIGHT, AND WE'RE PRETTY SURE HE'S OUT CELEBRATING NOW. WHAT IS A NEWSWEEK COVER WORTH? WELL, THAT'S SLIGHTLY PRIVATE INFORMATION, I'M AFRAID WHAT'S IT WORTH TO YOUR CAREERS? IT'S DEFINITELY A BIG CAREER MOVE. THANKS FOR JOINING US, GUYS. CONGRATS. CONGRATULTIONS Check out these flash dance moves. While we are handing out the bouquets, the woman behind them is another Kiwi talent getting international exposure. Parris Goebel is the choreographer and joins me now. You're off to the circus, I hear. WITH CIRQUE DU SOLEIL? PRETTY COOL. I MET THE DIRECTOR OF JENNIFER LOPEZ'S TOUR. HE SORTS EVERYTHING OUT FOR CIRQUE AND DIRECTS MOST OF THE SHOWS HE DIRECTS MOST OF THEIR SHOWS TOO. I MET HIM THROUGH THE TOUR, AND HE WAS, LIKE, 'DO YOU HAVE ANY DANCERS?' HE ASKED IF I HAD ANY DANCES AND INTEREST IN WORKING ON THE SHOW. HOW OLD ARE YOU, PARRIS GOEBEL? I'M 20. I DON'T THINK PEOPLE MY AGE GET A BREAK LIKE THIS WERE YOU BLOWN AWAY? YES, VERY OVERWHELMED. YOU'RE PART OF THE DANCE GROUP. HOW MANY OF THE OTHERS GOT A LOOK IN AT CIRQUE? THERE'S SIX OTHER GIRLS PART OF THE SHOW. BUT YOU'RE ROLE IS BIGGER? YOU'RE NOT JUST A PART. I'LL BE CHOREOGRAPHING IT TOO. I THINK IT'S BIGGER ON A PRODUCTION SIDE, IT'S ACROBATS AND DANCING. IT'S ALSO ACTING. I THINK IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE MORE THEATRICAL BUT IT'S VERY EXCITING. OK, YOU'RE 20 YEARS OLD. YOU'VE GONE FROM JENNIFER LOPEZ TO CIRQUE. WHERE WILL THAT TAKE YOU? WHERE IS THE CIRQUE GOING TO TAKE YOU? I'VE GOT TO BE IN CANADA FOR 20 MONTHS NO, NO. NO SUMMER FOR ME. YOU WORK WITH THESE STARS AND THIS PRODUCTION, DO YOU HAVE A DREAM JOB? I EVENTUALLY WANT TO BE DIRECTING SHOWS MORE THAN CHOREOGRAPHING EVEN IF IT'S DANCE MOVIES OR VIDEO, I REALLY WANNA GET INTO DIRECTING. HOW LONG ARE YOU COMMITTING FOR? I'M GONE ABOUT THREE MONTHS. CONGRATUATIONS. FANTASTIC. We've had a lot of your feedback on how to deal with the elderly. We've run out of time, but will have some of that for you tomorrow. That's NZ Close Up. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air.