For professionals
- Assessment
- Ageism
- Retirement Villages
- Rest homes, care homes & residential care
- Home support
- WHAT'S THE COST?
- Retirement villages CHECKLIST
- Rest/care homes CHECKLIST
- Rest/care home 10 STEPS
- Relationships
- Support at home CHECKLIST
- Health & wellbeing
- COVID-19
- Navigating dementia
- Hard to talk about?
- Carers
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- Local community
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- Fitness, sport & recreation
- Housing options
- Thinking about a retirement village
- Useful equipment
- Transport & driving
- Scams, safety & emergencies
- Technology
- Leaving a retirement village
- Living in a care home
- Definitions, key terms and concepts used in older persons’ health services
- Rights
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- Managing your affairs
- How to:
- Legal & other related issues
- Financial information & issues
- For professionals
- Statistics about ageing
- Using the website
Audit reports are available at: https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/certified-providers/aged-care A full list of certified rest home (care home) providers in New Zealand can also be downloaded.
For daily nationwide bed availability see: www.eldernet.co.nz/vacancies To view in a table, select a DHB region first then select ‘View in table’ on right side of the screen. The report may be filtered by: Provider, Vacant beds, Short stay, Impending vacancy, Dedicated Premium room charges, Dedicated Dual use beds, Care...
The data visualization tool in the interRAI website allows you to access data at a national, regional and population level. If more comprehensive data is required, you need to request it.
Delia McKenna and Barbara Staniforth in their 2017 paper ‘ Older people moving to residential care in Aotearoa New Zealand: Considerations for social work at practice and policy levels .’ give some insights into this time of transition. They show how this process and experience may be improved. “ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION:...
The Ministry of Health website has comprehensive information about the implementation of the Act and other relevant information. See also a link to the Act: The End of Life Choice Act 2019
The hospice website provides lots of information about end-of-life care. This family/whanau may find A Guide for Carers useful. The Palliative Care Handbook 2019 provides information about symptom management.
