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Loneliness Meetings – Waikato region

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Waikato Loneliness Events In June and July we will be talking to Waikato communities about loneliness and social isolation. We all experience these feelings sometimes, but how much loneliness and…

Changes to Disability Funding

Thank you so much for your responses to our survey! We are very grateful that so many of you took the time to share your experiences. To read responses, collated…

Carers NZ around the motu

Carers NZ will be talking to carers around Aotearoa New Zealand in the coming months. It will be nice to see each other in person for sharing, connection, nibbles and…

Infometrics Report – Economic Contribution of Caregiving November 2022

The economic contribution and sacrifices of unpaid family, whānau and aiga carers in New Zealand for Alzheimers NZ, Carers NZ, the Carers Alliance, IHC and the Ministry of Social Development.…

Addressing Loneliness in Aotearoa Survey

Carers NZ is participating in a research project that addresses social isolation and loneliness among people with physical disabilities and their family/whānau carers. We want to explore the impacts of…

State of Caring Survey 2024

State of Caring Survey 2024 Greetings / Kia ora / Kia orana / Malo e lelei / Talofa lava In 2021 more than 1,600 of you completed our State of Caring survey…

AUT Study – Looking for people aged 55 years and over

Researchers at the Auckland University of Technology are looking for people aged 55 years and over to talk about how being harmed or mistreated as an older person by somebody…

Government needs to make family carers’ payments simple and sensible

The Court of Appeal has just released a decision that family carers of disabled people are not employees of Whaikaha, the Ministry of Disabled People. While it is good to…

Richard Terrill on Loneliness 

New Zealand Air Force veteran and RSA representative for Let’s End Loneliness, Richard Terrill, says that the profound loneliness he felt when he was a young man and away from…