Story: Care and carers

More links and websites

• Alzheimers New Zealand

  Alzheimers New Zealand raises awareness of dementia, provides information and resources, advocates for high-quality services, and promotes research about prevention, treatment, cure and care.

• Carers New Zealand

  The Carers New Zealand charity provides support for family carers.

• Health & Disability Commissioner

  The office of the Health & Disability Commissioner works to promote and protect the rights of health consumers and those with disabilities.

• Hospice New Zealand

  The national hospice organisation.

• The hospice movement in New Zealand – 25 years on

  An article by Michael McCabe published by The Nathaniel Centre in 2004.

• The New Zealand Carers' Strategy

  An Action Plan for 2019 to 2023 accessible from this link was developed in consultation with whānau, aiga and carers and in partnership between a cross-government working group and the New Zealand Carers’ Alliance, a network of not-for-profit organisations. 

More suggestions and sources

• A guide for carers – He aratohu mā ngā kaitiaki. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development, 2013.

• Bland, Marian. ‘Betwixt and between: a critical ethnography of comfort in New Zealand residential aged care.’ Journal of Clinical Nursing 16 (2007): 937–944. 

• Jorgensen, Diane, Parsons, Matthew, Jacobs, Stephen and Arksey, Hilary. 'New Zealand informal caregivers and their unmet needs.' New Zealand Medical Journal 123, no. 1317 (2010).

• Kirkman, Allison. ‘Caring “from the duty and the heart”: gendered work and Alzheimer’s disease.' Women’s Studies Journal 24, no. 1 (2011): 2–16.

• Kirkman, Allison. ‘Formal and informal care: caring as paid and unpaid labour.’ In Health and society in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Kevin Dew and Peter Davis, 113–126. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2004.

• Opie, Anne, ed. Caring alone: looking after the confused elderly at home. Wellington: Daphne Brasell, 1991.

• Tennant, Margaret. ‘Disability in New Zealand: an historical survey.’ New Zealand Journal of Disability Studies 2 (1996): 3–33.

• Tennant, Margaret. Paupers and providers: charitable aid in New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1989.

• The New Zealand carers’ strategy and five-year action plan 2008. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development, 2008.