# Better Later Life Action Plan 2025-2028

**Source Organisation:** Office for Seniors
**Publication Date:** November 2025
**Original Source URL:** https://www.officeforseniors.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Better-Later-Life-Action-Plan-2025-28-Web-version.pdf
**Source PDF Link:** https://www.officeforseniors.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Better-Later-Life-Action-Plan-2025-28-Web-version.pdf
**Category:** policy-legislation
**Document Type:** PDF
**Document ID:** doc-0510
**Tags:** #policy-legislation #NZ #better-later-life #digital-inclusion #service-navigation #pip-evidence

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## Key Facts & Findings

- The plan's three formal priorities are health and care services, housing, and cost of living, supported by ten objectives.
- One objective is that older people can access and navigate the services they need, when they need them.
- DIA, the Ministry of Health and Health NZ have a 2028 action to develop digital service-navigation and referral options, subject to future budgets and resourcing.
- Another objective is that older people have the skills to stay digitally connected.
- The plan says digital-skills training largely remains ad hoc and explicitly addresses social connection and social isolation; loneliness is not a standalone priority.

## Summary & Research Notes

The action plan translates the Better Later Life strategy into three formal priorities - health and care services, housing, and cost of living - and ten objectives for 2025-2028. Within health and care, it supports PiP's service-navigation and digital-inclusion thesis, including an action for DIA, the Ministry of Health and Health NZ to develop options that use digital government infrastructure to improve navigation and referral pathways by 2028, subject to future budgets and resourcing.

## Evidence & Quality Scores

- **Authority Score:** 5/100
- **Freshness Score:** 5/100
- **Relevance Score:** 5/100
- **Knowledge Base Value:** 5/100
- **Target Audience:** Older people, policy makers, agencies, and service providers