Find out about some of activities and publications of the NZ Dementia Foundation, and how you can be involved.
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The NZ Dementia Foundation, Alzheimers NZ, and Dementia NZ are working in partnership to lead the development of a first national Dementia Action Plan.
The goal is to clarify the objectives and identify the areas that are priorities for action. The draft Action Plan was distributed to the sector for feedback and then redrafted. We are now very pleased to share with you the newly launched Dementia Action Plan for NZ.
Read our summary of the feedback on the draft plan
Read the Dementia Action Plan
Read the letter to the minister here
Keep up to date and share your views in the Dementia Action Plan community forum here
The NZ Dementia Foundation is project-managing a national Cognitive Impairment Assessment Review in response to changes in accessibility of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (“MoCA”).
The project is sponsored by the MOH 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.
Keep up to date and share your views in the CIAR community forum here
The Dementia Knowledge Exchange programme is about bringing people and knowledge together to make positive change.
Each year we co-organise one-day knowledge seminars in collaboration with Dementia NZ and local organisations in three regions. Entry to the day is free due to generous sponsorship from Summerset.
As a NZ Dementia Foundation member you will be notified of these events.
The NZ Dementia Foundation is helping lead a project to develop guidance for clinical support of people with lifelong intellectual disability who develop a dementia.
The NZ Dementia Foundation has managed a working group made up of people from across the NZ Intellectual Disability sector to develop a cognitive impairment pathway for assessment, diagnosis, intervention and support for people with intellectual disability who develop dementia. Regional trials will be completed in 2020.
Keep up to date and share your views in the ID and Dementia Pathway community forum here
The NZ Dementia Foundation supported the development of an education resource for professionals who work with Māori whānau living with dementia.
Working with the Brain Research NZ project manager, the NZ Dementia Foundation (then NZDC) supervised and supported the development of an online resources for the Goodfellow Unit website. The resource is designed for people in the health and social care sectors who work with tangata whenua who develop dementia.
At the same time, footage was also shot to contribute to making a resource for Maori whānau. This resource is now available on the Te Puna Ora o Mataatua Trust’s website
View the resource for professionals here
View the resource for whānau here
Keep up to date and share your views in the Māori equity and responsiveness community forum here
The New Zealand Dementia Foundation (previously NZDC) contributed to the development of the resource "Supporting Family and Whānau of People Living with Dementia – Education Guidelines".
As a member of the National Dementia Framework Collaboration, the NZ Dementia Foundation worked to develop these guidelines. They set standards and goals for providers of dementia education to family and whānau.
View the guidelines here