NZ Dementia framework:

One of the three key principles of the framework is the requirement to provide accessible, proactive, and interactive services and highlights the need for services to partner and engage the person with dementia and their family/whānau. The framework also identifies workforce education and training as important overarching factors and describes requirements for educational and training opportunities that should

• be based on best practice,
• focus on the meaning of a people-centred and people-directed approach,
• include input from people with dementia and their families and whānau,
• include experiential learning,
• address different learning styles and abilities, including English as a second language,
• recognise the different needs of cultural diversity and cultural groups and finds ways to address those needs,
• respond to the needs of people with co-existing conditions and/or impairments,
• be supported by the health and social support service providers.

Throughout the framework, guides and resources are provided for health and social service providers throughout the dementia journey.

Dementia Action Plan:

The dementia plan acknowledges the need to strengthen capability across the sector and identifies the need to “make training support across the medical, disability and social support services more available across the sector in all DHB area”.