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Community groups & agencies for older people
HealthInfo recommends the following pages
Advocacy and support
- Age Concern Canterbury – provides information, and support services.
- Carers New Zealand – provides information, advice, learning, and support.
- Enliven – a division of Presbyterian Support Services that works with clients to develop personal programmes to help them achieve their goals.
- Grandparents Raising Grandchildren – provides support services to grandparents who are raising their grandchildren on a full-time basis.
- Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service – a free, independent, and confidential service for health and disability consumers.
Education
- SeniorNet – provides lessons on using computers.
Financial and legal advice
- Citizens Advice Bureau – gives free, confidential information and advice to help with money, legal, consumer, and other problems.
- Community Law Canterbury – provides quality, free legal support
Government agencies
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Social Development and Ministry of Social Development – Services for Seniors brochure
- Work and Income
Health and disability information
- Aspire Canterbury information service – disability information service.
- Enable New Zealand: Lifelong design checklist (link opens a PDF) – things to consider to make your home comfortable and safe as you grow older, or your mobility becomes impaired.
- Health and Disability Commissioner – promotes and protects the rights of consumers.
- Seniorline – information for older people to make decisions about staying at home, retirement villages, homecare, day care and rest homes.
Retirement issues
- Retirement Villages Association of NZ – provides information and news to help protect the rights of people living in retirement villages.
- Eldernet – information service that focuses on issues concerning older people.
Social contact
- St John Caring Caller – provides a phone call to check on someone’s wellbeing.
- Te Whare Awhero (Hope House) – provides community-based services.
Written by HealthInfo clinical advisers. Last reviewed July 2019.
Review key: HISSO-48278
