2023 Network Hui

Budget 2022 had set aside $12 million to support some Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan projects. We discussed the draft advice that the Dementia Mate Wareware Leadership and Advisory Group planned to give to Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai Ora regarding the commissioning for these services.

One of the messages from the first Network meeting in November 2022 was that people expressed a desire to have working groups. In that meeting, participants had the opportunity to spend time in the group of their choice to plan how they wanted to move forward.

This was a priority-setting meeting. We were committed to seeing all the Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan initiatives in place, but we wanted to know what others thought should be the next steps. Te Whakaruruhau mō te Mate Wareware / the Dementia Mate Wareware Leadership and Advisory Group had wanted to hear from participants about what they believed we should focus on.

This was the second part of our priority-setting as a Network. This meeting provided a chance for all the communities of interest groups to hear from each other.

We were committed to seeing all the Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan initiatives in place, but we wanted to know what others thought should be the next steps. Te Whakaruruhau mō te Mate Wareware / the Dementia Mate Wareware Leadership and Advisory Group wanted to hear from participants about what they believed we should focus on.

Each community of interest group had the opportunity to finalise their advice on priorities and share this with the Network meeting. The combined advice from all the communities of interest was then shared with the Leadership group as a "briefing paper" document.

This special meeting of the Dementia Mate Wareware Network / Te Tūhononga mō te Mate Wareware was an opportunity to hear updates about Māori-focused support and assessment. The following presentations were given to Network members:

• The Tūhononga Whaiaro model for mainstream services that support people living with mate wareware - Dr Oliver Menzies 
• The MANA (Māori Assessment of Neuropsychological Abilities) approach for cognitive assessment - Dr Makarena Dudley 
• The culturally appropriate assessment model for InterRAI Assessments - Sally Aydon

This gathering of the Dementia Mate Wareware Network / Te Tūhononga mō te Mate Wareware was an opportunity to hear updates and feedback on the progress and priorities that have been made possible by all the mahi the Network has put in.

The hui included the following areas:

• Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai Ora's announcement on the projects they have selected for the Budget 2022 funding: View here
• The Leadership Group's response to the Network's recommendations for supporting diagnosis in primary care, family whānau carers, and the professional workforce View here
• Updates on engaging with Pasifika providers and communities View now

1. Three Tools: Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT)
2. Three Tools: Shared Goals of Care (SGOC)
3. Three Tools: Te Ara Whakapiri (TAW)

• Sally Fleming, NP, Otago Community Hospice 
• Jane Goodwin, National Advance Care Planning Programme Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission 
• Lisa Henderson, NP, Hospice Southland Carole Kerr, CNS, Older Persons Mental Health 
• Margaret O'Connor, NP, MonARC Health 
• Vicki Telford, CNS, Nurse Maude Hospice