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Strategy

Explore evidence-backed opportunities for campaigns, policy work, service design and market planning. Follow the supporting documents and check the source queue for further research.

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Strategy ideas

1-4 of 14 ideas.

Campaign
Near-term
High evidence

Retirement village reform evidence pack

Retirement village reform is active, politically visible, and highly relevant to older homeowners and families considering occupation right agreements.

Residents
Advocates
Policy teams

Opportunity

Create a resident-facing evidence pack that explains capital repayment, dispute resolution, disclosure, and contract risks in plain language.

Suggested actions

  • Group resident-rights documents into one shareable pack.
  • Turn repeated themes into submission points and media-ready messages.
  • Identify where consumer expectations and operator positions diverge.
Policy
Near-term
High evidence

Aged care funding pressure map

Funding, workforce, bed supply, dementia care, and quality risks are converging into one system pressure story.

Health planners
Providers
Ministers

Opportunity

Map evidence from inquiry reports, provider signals, and workforce documents into a clear case for staged funding and contracting reform.

Suggested actions

  • Separate urgent bed-supply risks from long-term model reform.
  • Link workforce evidence to quality and access outcomes.
  • Build a one-page briefing for ministerial and select committee audiences.
Service
Medium-term
Medium evidence

Ageing-at-home service model

Older people prefer to remain at home, but home support, carer capacity, transport, and digital access determine whether that is realistic.

Community providers
Health NZ
Local agencies

Opportunity

Design a coordinated support model that combines home care, carer navigation, digital help, fall prevention, and escalation pathways.

Suggested actions

  • Identify common service gaps across home support and carer documents.
  • Prioritise pathways for people living alone or in rural areas.
  • Package the model for pilots with community and primary care partners.
Consumer
Medium-term
Medium evidence

Dementia family navigation offer

Families need earlier, simpler guidance on warning signs, diagnosis, respite, legal planning, and support options.

Families
Dementia providers
Primary care

Opportunity

Build a staged navigation pathway that turns dementia evidence into practical next steps for families and frontline referrers.

Suggested actions

  • Create a warning-signs to support-pathway flow.
  • Connect dementia content with EPA, carer, and respite resources.
  • Identify culturally specific needs for kaumatua and Pacific elders.
Ideas

14

Near-term

9

Public evidence links

80

Across 63 distinct documents; documents can support several ideas.

How to develop an evidence-backed idea

Collect

Use baseline context, then attach official PDFs, source briefs, parliamentary material and sector evidence.

Compare

Cross-check public narratives against NZ documents, recorded party positions, ministerial portfolios and category evidence.

Act

Convert repeated signals into briefings, watchlists, campaign packs, service pilots and stakeholder questions.