Health of older people organisations and websites

The creation of a dedicated Aged Care Commissioner is an excellent opportunity to elevate HDC’s work to protect the rights of people receiving aged care services.

An independent, charitable, not-for-profit organisation working to promote the rights, quality of life and well-being of older people around New Zealand.

Information on better health and active ageing, including Guidelines for Medication Management in Residential Aged Care Facilities.

A charitable trust dedicated to improving the lives of family carers.

The Centre aims to raise awareness of issues around all aspects of ageing and to support good practice. Its overarching focus is to discover and advocate what older people themselves want and need.

Eldernet was established in 1997 in response to seeing the need for a comprehensive information service that focused on issues concerning older kiwis.

Grey Power is an advocacy organisation promoting the welfare and well-being of all those citizens in the 50 plus age group. We monitor what the government is doing and how that will affect our members.

HealthEd provides you with free and up-to-date public health resources from New Zealand health organisations. The Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora and Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora provide these resources to help all kiwis.

interRAI is a suite of clinical assessment instruments used to assess an older person’s care needs both in the community and residential care.

Provides information and resources for older people and their carers about preventing falls and fractures. (Jointly published by ACC, MoH, Health Quality & Safety Commission.)

Seniorline is a national information service to help older people and their whanau navigate the health system. It is funded by all Health Districts in New Zealand. Seniorline provides information to assist older people to make decisions.

We’re working to improve the lives of older people across New Zealand by providing information, promoting the wellbeing and concerns of older people and increasing awareness of the issues facing our ageing population. We want everyone to feel valued.