06-10_0030_Prompt32_DementiaMateWarewareUpdates
2026-06-10_0030_Prompt32_DementiaMateWarewareUpdates
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June 2026
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The kaitiaki group — Alzheimers NZ, Dementia NZ, NZ Dementia Foundation, and Te Mate Wareware Advisory Rōpū — presented the refreshed Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan 2026–2031 to Associate Minister of Health Hon Casey Costello at the Alzheimers NZ Summit on 24 September 2025.
Key Points
- •Leadership & Advisory Group / Te Whakaruruhau — provides strategic advice to Government on implementing the Action Plan
- •Network / Te Tūhononga — open to providers, workforce, people living with dementia, whānau, experts
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The kaitiaki group — Alzheimers NZ, Dementia NZ, NZ Dementia Foundation, and Te Mate Wareware Advisory Rōpū — presented the refreshed Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan 2026–2031 to Associate Minister of Health Hon Casey Costello at the Alzheimers NZ Summit on 24 September 2025. The plan is a five-year roadmap with five priority areas: 1. Promote brain health — reduce known risk factors through healthier environments 2. Timely diagnosis and planning — integrate dementia into routine primary care with equitable access 3. Community support — culturally appropriate, person- and whānau-centred services with respite for care partners 4. Workforce support — strengthen training, accredited learning pathways for health professionals and whānau supporters 5. Effective governance — national leadership, consistent data collection, outcome measures The plan builds on the first Action Plan (2020–2025) and continues initiatives including kaupapa Māori research, respite and navigation services, law reform for supported decision-making, and end-of-life care tools. Alzheimers NZ is campaigning for government to: 1. Progressively implement and fund the Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan 2026–2031 2. Fund community-based dementia services appropriately to deliver early and ongoing support 3. Create and implement an older persons' health and aged care strategy based on an integrated continuum of care Te Pūnaha Mana Whakahaere mō te Mate Wareware (Demen
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