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Together We’re Making a Difference

Find out about some of the projects the New Zealand Dementia Foundation has helped lead.

Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan

The NZ Dementia Foundation, Alzheimers NZ, Dementia NZ, and te Mate Wareware Advisory Rōpū worked in partnership to lead the development of the refreshed Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan 2026-2031.
Alongside our partners, we continue to advocate for the implementation of this important blueprint. Click here for access.

Three tools: E toru nga taputapu 

Three tools to help support end-of-life care for aged care residents living with dementia mate wareware.
The Dementia End of Life project identified three existing evidence-based tools that, when used routinely, can help address these challenges and support high-quality, person-centred end-of-life and palliative care for our residents living with dementia. In short, three tools that every aged residential care facility should know about! The New Zealand Dementia Foundation is proud to provide support for knowledge translation and a website hub for this project. Click here for access.

Post-Diagnostic Services Review

The New Zealand Dementia Foundation reviewed the evidence for best practice post-diagnostic community support in 2022.
What does the research literature tell us is ‘best practice’ for post-diagnostic community services for people living with dementia and their care partners from the perspectives of people with lived experience, experts, service providers, and research findings? This was the question posed by a review commissioned by Dementia New Zealand.  The NZ Dementia Foundation was asked to investigate ‘best practice’ for post-diagnostic community services for people living with dementia. This report provides an updated review of recent literature and an analysis of best-practice approaches for core post-diagnostic community dementia services, aiming to reach optimistic, specific conclusions and recommendations for the future. Click here to read the review.

Mini-ACE Access

The NZ Dementia Foundation hosts the online hub for the Mini-ACE, the recommended cognitive impairment screening tool in New Zealand for non-dementia specialty health services.
The Mini-ACE webpage is sponsored by the MOH and the Dementia Framework Collaboration. It provides access to information about the Mini-ACE, the materials to administer it, and online training. Click here to access the Mini-ACE.

The Mini-ACE was endorsed through a national Cognitive Impairment Assessment Review, the NZ Dementia Foundation project managed in response to changes in accessibility of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (“MoCA”).
The project was sponsored by the Ministry of Health and the Dementia Framework Collaboration. In the first phase of the project, a multidisciplinary working group prepared a briefing about which instrument should be endorsed as New Zealand’s primary recommended cognitive test for dementia assessment in primary care and non-dementia-specific services.

Together We’re Making a Difference

Find out about some of the projects the New Zealand Dementia Foundation has helped lead.

Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan

The NZ Dementia Foundation, Alzheimers NZ, Dementia NZ, and te Mate Wareware Advisory Rōpū worked in partnership to lead the development of the refreshed Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan 2026-2031.
Alongside our partners, we continue to advocate for the implementation of this important blueprint. Click here for access.

Three tools: E toru nga taputapu 

Three tools to help support end-of-life care for aged care residents living with dementia mate wareware.
The Dementia End of Life project identified three existing evidence-based tools that, when used routinely, can help address these challenges and support high-quality, person-centred end-of-life and palliative care for our residents living with dementia. In short, three tools that every aged residential care facility should know about! The New Zealand Dementia Foundation is proud to provide support for knowledge translation and a website hub for this project. Click here for access.

Post-Diagnostic Services Review

The New Zealand Dementia Foundation reviewed the evidence for best practice post-diagnostic community support in 2022.
What does the research literature tell us is ‘best practice’ for post-diagnostic community services for people living with dementia and their care partners from the perspectives of people with lived experience, experts, service providers, and research findings? This was the question posed by a review commissioned by Dementia New Zealand.  The NZ Dementia Foundation was asked to investigate ‘best practice’ for post-diagnostic community services for people living with dementia. This report provides an updated review of recent literature and an analysis of best-practice approaches for core post-diagnostic community dementia services, aiming to reach optimistic, specific conclusions and recommendations for the future. Click here to read the review.

Mini-ACE Access

The NZ Dementia Foundation hosts the online hub for the Mini-ACE, the recommended cognitive impairment screening tool in New Zealand for non-dementia specialty health services.
The Mini-ACE webpage is sponsored by the MOH and the Dementia Framework Collaboration. It provides access to information about the Mini-ACE, the materials to administer it, and online training. Click here to access the Mini-ACE.

The Mini-ACE was endorsed through a national Cognitive Impairment Assessment Review, the NZ Dementia Foundation project managed in response to changes in accessibility of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (“MoCA”).
The project was sponsored by the Ministry of Health and the Dementia Framework Collaboration. In the first phase of the project, a multidisciplinary working group prepared a briefing about which instrument should be endorsed as New Zealand’s primary recommended cognitive test for dementia assessment in primary care and non-dementia-specific services.