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- About Dementia Mate Wareware
- About the Dementia Mate Wareware Initiative
- Post-diagnostic supports and navigation services
- Respite care services
- Improving Dementia Mate Wareware Services in Aotearoa New Zealand Action Plan
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- Related services for older people
- Related strategies and work programmes
About Dementia Mate Wareware
More information about dementia mate wareware is available on Health Information and Services website here.
About the Dementia Mate Wareware Initiative
The Dementia Mate Wareware Initiative focuses on supporting the implementation of the Dementia Action Plan, specifically addressing the objective to support people living with dementia mate wareware, their whānau, and care partners/supporters to live their best possible lives.
Implementing the Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan is a commitment under Te Pae Tata Interim New Zealand Health Plan 2022.
Budget 2022 allocated $12 million over four years for the Dementia Mate Wareware Initiative. Seven new services have been commissioned under this initiative, selected with a focus on the following priority populations - Māori, Pacific, people living in rural areas and people with younger onset dementia mate wareware.
The new services include:
- Post diagnostic supports for people with dementia mate wareware, their whānau and carers
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Navigator roles to coordinate and enable people to access the support they need
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Respite care to enable carers to take a break from their caring responsibilities.
The following is a summary of the providers who submitted successful applications to deliver dementia services for this initiative, including post-diagnostic supports, navigation services and respite care services over the next four years.
Respite care services
Presbyterian Support Upper South Island (PSUSI)
Presbyterian Support Upper South Island (PSUSI)
The Presbyterian Support Upper South Island HomeShare Day Programme will be delivered through a collaboration of 12 agencies across Te Waipounamu. The collaboration across Te Waipounamu will develop a dementia mate wareware HomeShare day activity programme, providing respite care for persons with dementia mate wareware.
Services will be delivered across 17 rural and regional localities across Te Waipounamu. These include Otago, South Canterbury, Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson/Tasman, and West Coast.
The respite services in 17 locations across Te Waipounamu will deliver fun activities around service users’ interests, provide opportunities to socialise and contribute to reducing stress for whanau/caregivers.
Respite care will be delivered in private homes or community venues for a maximum of four people with dementia per day. Therefore, each location in the trial can focus on the needs of differing groups of people. Across several locations, the needs of Māori, young onset (under 65 years) or those who live rurally who have dementia mate wareware, will be met.
A typical day in the dementia mate wareware HomeShare programme will involve:
- The delivery of appropriate recreational, diversional, and social activities, according to the interests and priorities of the participants
- Fun and socialisation
- A shared meal
- Assistance with transport to and from the dementia mate wareware HomeShare venue will be provided if required.
Organisational background
Presbyterian support has been providing social services in the Upper South Island for over 100 years.
Their vision is for a compassionate and inclusive society and their mission is to support children, young people, whānau/families, and older people to be safe, strong and connected.
Presbyterian support provides a range of services for tamariki, whānau, young people and kaumātua to ensure wrap around supports are available for all ages.
For more information: see www.psuppersouth.org.nz/ or contact Victoria Newcombe, General Manager, Social Services on email victorian@psusi.org.nz
Dementia Hawke’s Bay in collaboration with Kahungunu Executive ki te Wairoa Charitable Trust
Dementia Hawke’s Bay in collaboration with Kahungunu Executive ki te Wairoa Charitable Trust
Dementia Hawke’s Bay Charitable Trust in collaboration with Kahungunu Executive ki te Wairoa Charitable Trust will provide respite care services via the Kaupapa Māori Active Day Programme based in the Wairoa community.
The Kaupapa Māori Active Day Programme will deliver cognitive stimulation, physical activity, and socialisation to promote brain health. A typical day will go from 9am to 3pm.
The Kaupapa Māori Active Day Programme will be delivered in tandem with the Ageing Well Programme ‘Te Rangi Atua’ for kaumātua.
Organisational background
Dementia Hawkes Bay is a charitable trust that focuses on the development and delivery of quality services for people with a diagnosis of mate wareware and their whānau in the Hawke’s Bay region.
They offer unique services that support people to function in their own homes and within the community from the point of diagnosis and throughout their dementia journey.
Kahungunu Executive ki te Wairoa Charitable Trust is the only Māori Health Provider in Wairoa, delivering a range of health, mental health, social and housing services to the Wairoa community and the surrounding rural areas.
Their vision is for the Wairoa whānau to be healthy and well and their mission is to help whānau achieve their goals and aspirations.
For more information: see www.kahu-exec.co.nz/, www.dementiahb.org.nz/ or contact Sarah Paku General Manager, Kahungunu Executive ki te Wairoa Charitable Trust on email sarah.paku@kahu-exec.co.nz or Tracey Lanigan, CEO of Dementia Hawke’s Bay on email ceo@dementiahb.org.nz
Improving Dementia Mate Wareware Services in Aotearoa New Zealand Action Plan
Implementing the Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan is a commitment under Te Pae Tata Interim New Zealand Health Plan 2022.
With no treatment or cure on the horizon, dementia mate wareware is one of the 21st century’s greatest global challenges for health and social care. It represents a major challenge for Aotearoa New Zealand, creating significant human, social, economic, health, workforce and economic costs. People living with dementia mate wareware are amongst the most vulnerable in Aotearoa New Zealand and services are not currently capable of meeting their needs.
The Action Plan was developed on behalf of and with input and support from the wider sector by a small group of dementia mate wareware NGOs, including the New Zealand Dementia Foundation, Dementia New Zealand and Alzheimers New Zealand, the Mate Wareware Advisory Rōpū, clinicians, academics, and providers to drive the changes needed to address this challenge and improve the health, independence, and quality of life of people living with dementia mate wareware in a sustainable way. The changes build on current and potential services and supports.
The Action Plan was first presented to the Government in May 2020 and updated in September 2021.
Its goal is to improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia mate wareware while decreasing the impact of dementia mate wareware on them, as well as on Aotearoa New Zealand, family and whānau, communities, the health system, and the economy.