Research

New research published today by the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) is the first of its kind to better understand, raise awareness of and start discussion about the quality of care for Māori and aged residential care (ARC).

New Zealand’s health care sector is mobilising to prepare for a projected surge in the number of COVID patients isolating at home, including the development of a telehealth training model.

As COVID-19 restrictions are slowly lifted, people should plan to reconnect as soon as it is safe to do so, researchers say.

Dr Rebecca Abey-Nesbit, a researcher at the University of Otago, Christchurch, has spent the past four years working as part of a team dedicated to better ageing research. In this article, Rebecca shares her research into the impacts of loneliness and carer stress on older adults.

Professor Merryn Gott (Director of Te Arai Care and End of Life Research Group discusses how older people were disempowered as a result of negative media representation during the first Covid-19 outbreak.

Associate Professor Marama Muru-Lanning and researchers at the James Henare Māori Research Centre discuss their research looking at the experiences of kaumātua as they grow older and what it means for Māori to age well.

Dr Sally Rimkeit (a psychogeriatrician) and Dr Gillian Claridge (an applied linguist) discuss the research that led them to develop the Dovetale Press books – a series of classic tales that have been adapted specifically for people with dementia.

Time spent volunteering provides a triple win, for the community, organisations and to the individual says Volunteering New Zealand

As part of an ongoing series about equity oriented palliative care, Te Ārai Research Group recently published a paper looking at the disproportionate impact poverty and deprivation has on how, when and where we die.

The myth of the tech-savvy, university graduate entrepreneur is continuing to be undermined by a global trend which is seeing an increasing number of older people starting businesses.