Election 2017 - Party Policies - Health - Aged Care
27th May 17, 9:41am
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Aged Care
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- Implement recommendations made in the Human Rights Commission 2012 report of the Inquiry into the Aged Care Workforce
- Ensure information is provided and promoted among GPs, specialists, nurses and ancillary health providers regarding ageism, medical ageism, mental health/self esteem issues, and the correlation between mental/emotional wellbeing and physical health
- Create purpose-built, rent-assisted living units for older people in all areas (including rural) so that ageing at home becomes a viable reality.
- Provide a high level of home support services for older people who are willing and able to continue living at home.
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- Introduce legislation that supports better regulations of aged care facilities.
- Reinvest in the aged care sector to ensure the sector is able to provide greater care of Kaumātua living in rest homes or aged care facilities.
- Expand services for Gold card holders by introducing free healthcare through Whānau Ora services.
- Free annual health and free annual dental check, fully subsidised prescriptions, and free bi-annual eyesight checks for everyone over 60 years of age.
- Establish specialised Māori led elderly residential care facilities, medical and support services.
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- 700,000 New Zealanders aged 60 to 74 will be screened for bowel cancer once our national bowel screening programme is fully implemented.
- We're supporting seniors’ health by increasing funding for aged residential care by $250 million while in Government.
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- Introduce three annual SuperGold Health Checks with a GP.
- Conduct a review into aged-care sector, including the funding of rest homes particularly after pay-equity.
- Remove income and asset testing for older people needing long stay aged hospital care services.
- Ensure that subsidies are automatically adjusted for CPI inflation.
- Implement national standards for aged home care that are appropriately monitored and enforced.
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- Introducing a free annual health check-up to all over 65s.
- Supporting pay parity between nursing staff across all nursing sectors.
- Investigating the introduction of a carer’s allowance for those who stay at home to look after elderly relatives, from the starting point of providing a limited period of paid leave for those who take time off work to care for their parents in the final stages of their life.
- Ensuring that funding for the aged care sector covers staffing costs in both residential services and in-home care, to improve certainty and transparency, and quality of care.
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