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Guide to Promoting and Managing Continence for people living with dementia mate wareware

A new free guide Promoting and managing continence for people living with dementia mate wareware has just been released by a University of Auckland research team. Many people are affected…

Carers NZ is gathering feedback from disabled people and their whānau

Residential support and NASC assessments and reviews Have you had a recent assessment, or have you been waiting for residential support? We’re gathering feedback and would like to hear from…

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 2025

State of Caring Survey 2025 Greetings / Kia ora / Kia orana / Malo e lelei / Talofa lava Thank you to everyone who completed and shared our State of…

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…

Loneliness Meetings – Waikato region

Waikato Loneliness Events We are currently talking to Waikato communities about loneliness and social isolation. We all experience these feelings sometimes, but how much loneliness and isolation is too much,…

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…

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…