2026-2031 Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan 
Author:
Alzheimers New Zealand, Dementia New Zealand, New Zealand Dementia Foundation, and te Mate Wareware Advisory Rōpū, 2025 (NZ)
Description:
The 2026-2031 Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan provides a roadmap, outlining the five priority areas and strategic foundations needed to prevent dementia where possible and improve support for New Zealanders currently living with dementia mate wareware.
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Restorative Care
Author:
South Island Alliance 
Description:
Two restorative care guides to support older people to be independent, care for themselves and interact with their community, family and whānau for as long as possible.
Consumer Guide Health Professional Guide
New Zealand Framework for Dementia Care
Author:
Ministry of Health, 2013 (NZ)
Description:
The framework provides DHBs and the health and social support sectors with a guide for developing their dementia care pathways. The framework has three guiding principles and highlights five key elements for effective dementia care. It also identifies overarching factors that must be considered across all five key elements. 
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Dementia is Everybody's Business: Working Together to Achieve a Shared South Island Model of Care
Author:
South Island Health of Older People Service Level Alliance, 2017 (NZ)
Description:
This paper outlines a vision and provides a template for collaboration amongst all the South Island’s dementia health services to progress towards: more consistency of access across parts of the South Island and for all groups of people; more integration amongst different service providers in each local health area; more comprehensive coverage of the whole dementia journey for people living with dementia and their care partners; more person centred services; and services that continuously improve in respect of best practice.
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Improving the Lives of People with Dementia
Author:
Ministry of Health, 2014 (NZ)
Description:
This document outlines  nine key areas to improve the quality of life for people with dementia. 
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Better Later Life – He Oranga Kaumātua 2019 to 2034
Author:
Ministry of Social Development, 2019 (NZ)
Description:
Better Later Life – He Oranga Kaumātua 2019 to 2034 is a strategy for making the future better for New Zealanders as we age. The new strategy was launched on 1 November 2019. The strategy identifies five key areas for action, and within each what the government wants to achieve and what needs to happen. 
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Healthy Ageing Strategy 2016
Author:
Ministry of Health, 2016 (NZ)
Description:
This publication presents the overarching direction and action plan in regards to the health and wellbeing of older people. Health is a key aspect of ageing and wellbeing. The Healthy Ageing Strategy takes a life-course approach, seeking to maximise health and wellbeing for all older people so that “older people live well, age well, and have a respectful end of life in age-friendly communities”.
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New Zealand Disability Strategy 2016
Author:
Ministry of Social Development, 2016 (NZ)
Description:
The New Zealand Disability Strategy vision is: “New Zealand is a non-disabling society – a place where disabled people have an equal opportunity to achieve their goals and aspirations, and all of New Zealand works together to make this happen.”
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Mahi Aroha - Carers' Strategy Action Plan 2019-2023 and New Zealand Carers’ Strategy 2008 
Author:
Ministry of Social Development, 2019 (NZ)
Description:
The Action Plan is focused on: Recognising carers and their contributions; Improving the way carers can navigate the support and services available to them; Supporting the wellbeing of carers; Helping carers who want to balance their caring role with paid work or study. The Action Plan includes a new focus on target populations (Māori, Pacific, young and older carers) and a family, whānau, aiga-centred approach will form part of the implementation approach. The New Zealand Carers’ Strategy 2008 can be found at the back of the document.
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Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022
Author:
Parliament, 2022 (NZ)
Description:

The Act’s purpose is to:protect, promote, and improve the health of all New Zealanders, achieve equity by reducing health disparities among New Zealand’s population groups, in particular for Māori, and build towards pae ora (healthy futures) for all New Zealanders. The Ministry of Health is responsible for administering the Act.

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Restorative Care Stocktake 2017
Author:
South Island Alliance 
Description:
This report summarises responses from 117 service providers across the South Island with regard to understanding to what degree restorative care has been embedded across the ontinuum of services.
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Government Policy Statement on Health 2024–2027
Author:
Minister of Health, 2024 (NZ)
Description:

The Government Policy Statement on Health 2024-27 is the public statement of what Government expects the health system to deliver and achieve, and how success will be measured, monitored, and reported. It sets the direction for the health system as a whole and incorporates the Government’s priorities. 

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 New Zealand Health Plan | Te Pae Waenga 2024–2027
Author:
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, 2024 (NZ)
Description:
The New Zealand Health Plan is the three-year plan legislated under the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 for Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ).
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Whāia Te Ao Mārama 2018 to 2022: The Māori Disability Action Plan
Author:
Ministry of Health, 2018 (NZ)
Description:
Whāia Te Ao Mārama is a culturally anchored approach to supporting Māori with disabilities (tāngata whaikaha) and their whānau. This action plan describes what the Ministry of Health is committing to do from 2018 to 2022, and provides examples of actions that disability providers, other organisations, whānau and tāngata whaikaha can take. 
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Health and Disability System Review, Interim report. Purongo mo Tenei Wai
Author:
Ministry of Health, 2019 (NZ)
Description:
The Health and Disability System Review is charged with taking a system-wide approach to what needs to change to ensure our future system achieves better and more equitable health and wellbeing outcomes for all New Zealanders.
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Working with Older People: Mental Health and Addiction Workforce Development Priorities. 
Author:
Te Pou, 2018 (NZ)
Description:
He Ara Oranga, the report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction (2018) urges system transformation to increase choice and access to mental health and addiction services for everyone. It is important that older people are included in all our efforts to meet the Inquiry’s recommendations. The 10 priorities highlighted in this report represent a call to action to improve access for, and service responses to older people.
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Palliative Care Action Plan
Author:
Ministry of Health, 2017 (NZ)
Description:
This action plan details each of the priority areas recommended in the Review of Adult Palliative Care Services in New Zealand. The Action Plan provides a structured approach to inclusive and collaborative strategic planning and to improve the way that each of the priority areas work in practice.
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