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2026 – 2031 Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan

Alzheimers New Zealand, Dementia New Zealand, New Zealand Dementia Foundation, and te Mate Wareware Advisory Rōpū, 2025
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 Consumer Guide

South Island Alliance

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.

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Restorative Care Professionals Guide

New Zealand Framework for Dementia Care

Ministry of Health

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

South Island Health of Older People Service Level Alliance, 2017

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

Ministry of Health, 2014

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

Ministry of Social Development, 2019

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

Ministry of Health, 2016

This publication presents the overarching direction and action plan regarding the health and well-being 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 2026-2030

Ministry of Social Development, 2016

The New Zealand Disability Strategy 2026-2030 gives strategy gives direction to government agencies on issues disabled people, tāngata whaikaha Māori and whānau say are important.

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Mahi Aroha – Carers’ Strategy Action Plan 2019-2023 and New Zealand Carers’ Strategy 2008

Ministry of Social Development, 2019

The Action Plan is focused on: recognising carers and their contributions; improving how carers navigate the support and services available to them; supporting carers’ well-being; and 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. The New Zealand Carers’ Strategy 2008 is available at the back of the document.

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Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022

Parliament, 2022

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

South Island Alliance

This report summarises responses from 117 service providers across the South Island regarding the extent to which restorative care has been embedded across the continuum of services.

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Government Policy Statement on Health 2024–2027

Minister of Health, 2024

The Government Policy Statement on Health 2024-27 is the public statement of what the 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

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, 2024

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

Minister of Health, 2018

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

Minister of Health, 2019

The Health and Disability System Review is charged with taking a system-wide approach to what needs to change to ensure our future system delivers better, 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.

Te Pou, 2018

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

Ministry of Health, 2017

This action plan outlines the priority areas recommended in the Review of Adult Palliative Care Services in New Zealand. The Action Plan provides a structured approach to inclusive, collaborative strategic planning and to improving the way each of the priority areas works in practice.

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