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Health Services We Fund
Services for Older People
CMDHB is committed to ensuring the services it funds support the Health of Older People Strategy vision:
“Older people participate to their fullest ability in decisions about their health and well being and in family, whanau and community life. They are supported in this by coordinated and responsive health and disability programmes.”
While older people are generally well and living independently, their numbers will grow significantly in the next 20 years. Good health and quality of life are particularly strongly linked in older age groups. Older people are significant users of health and support services, both in terms of frequency of use and the costs of supplying services. For both these reasons, assisting older people to maintain good health is important.
This area tells you about how CMDHB plans and funds older people health services offered to you.
If you are looking for information on how to access the wide range of health and support services for Older People that CMDHB is responsible for, please click on the following links:
- Primary health
care services, encompassing General Practice related services
delivered through Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) and Pharmacy
services:
Primary Health Care website
- Public (acute
care) hospital services; including specialist assessment, treatment
and rehabilitation (AT&R) services:
http://www.healthpoint.co.nz/default,3940.sm
- Needs
Assessment & Service Coordination (NASC) service:
http://www.healthpoint.co.nz/default,58085.sm
- Aged
residential care, including rest home and long stay hospitals:
Residential Care Line
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Published: 26-May-2008 | Website enquiries: Web Content Manager