Māori and Pasifika

Buchanan, R. (2011). The Dementia Wing of History. Cultural Studies Review, 13(1), 1-14.
Type:
Essay, article
Description:
In this article the author draws on her family history to explore notions of Māori, and Pakeha identity in New Zealand, in the context of forgetting and remembering.
Keywords:
Maori, Māori, identity
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Cullum, S., Mullin, K., Zeng, I., Yates, S., Payman, V., Fisher, M., & Cheung, G. (2018). Do community‐dwelling Māori and Pacific peoples present with dementia at a younger age and at a later stage compared with NZ Europeans? International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(8), 1098-1104.
Type:
Research article
Description:
This study examined the routinely collected clinical data from a memory assessment service in South Auckland to examine the presentation of dementia in the major NZ ethnic groups. Māori and Pacific peoples with dementia presented to an NZ memory service at a younger age than NZ Europeans, and Pacific peoples presented with more advanced dementia.
Keywords:
Pacific peoples, Pacifika, Maori, Māori, memory clinic
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Cullum, S., Varghese, C., Yates, S., Kalauta, L., Appleton, J., Knell, R., Cheung, G. (2021). Predictors of Aged Residential Care Placement in Patients Newly Diagnosed with Dementia at a New Zealand Memory Service. Journal of Long-term Care, (2021), 24–32. DOI: http://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.46
Type:
Research article
Description:
Sarah Cullum and colleagues report that Maori and Pacifica people living with dementia were less likely to enter aged residential care despite having more severe dementia and higher levels of comorbidity.
Keywords:
Maori, Māori, identity, Pasifica, Pasifika
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Dudley, M., Menzies, O., Elder, H., Nathan, L., Garrett, N., & Wilson, D. (2019). Mate wareware: Understanding dementia from a Māori perspective. The New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1503), 66.
Type:
Research article
Description:
This study undertook kaupapa Māori research (Māori informed research) with 223 kaumātua (Māori elders) who participated in 17 focus groups across seven study regions throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and eight whānau from the Waikato region. Mate wareware (becoming forgetful and unwell) ('dementia') affects the wairua (spiritual dimension) of Māori. The findings elucidate Māori understandings of the causes of mate wareware, and the role of aroha (love, compassion) and manaakitanga (hospitality, kindness, generosity, support, caring) involved in caregiving for whānau living with mate wareware. Participants perceived cultural activities acted as protective factors that optimised a person's functioning within their whānau and community.
Keywords:
Maori, Māori, perspectives, qualitative
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Dyall, L. (2014). Dementia: continuation of health and ethnic inequalities in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal, 127(1389), 68-81. 
Type:
Research article
Description:
For Māori and Pacific peoples in New Zealand dementia is not necessarily associated with age but is directly related to our respective histories within this country, patterns of migration and the socioeconomic determinants. Issues are discussed in relation to Māori and Pacific development, prevention, early detection, and Whānau Ora
Keywords:
Maori, Māori, Pacific peoples, Pacifika, services, health
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Gilmour, J. (2016). Oral health experiences of Māori with dementia and whānau perspectives-oranga waha mō ngā iwi katoa. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 32(1).
Type:
Research article
Description:
This paper reports a study of the oral health experiences and needs of Māori with dementia and their whānau. Age-related change is associated with oral health issues such as gum recession, risk of caries and issues with previous dental work. A diagnosis of dementia is an added factor due to care provision difficulties. A descriptive qualitative research design was used to develop an in-depth understanding of oral health issues from the perspective of the people being interviewed
Keywords:
oral health, dental, teeth, Maori, Māori, services
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Hikaka, J., Jones, R., Hughes, C. et al. (2021). Ethnic Variations in the Quality Use of Medicines in Older Adults: Māori and Non-Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drugs Aging 38, 205–217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40266-020-00828-0
Type:
Research article
Description:
Joanna Hikaka and colleagues have reviewed the available literature on ethnic variations in the quality use of medicines, including medicines utilisation and associated clinical outcomes, between Māori and non- Māori older adult populations in NZ.
Keywords:
Maori, Māori, medicine, medication
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Kēpa, M. (2019). Oldest age does not come alone: What’s the name of the day. In W. Hulko, D. Wilson, & J. Balestrery (Eds.). Indigenous Peoples and Dementia: New Understandings of Memory Loss and Memory Care. Toronto, Canada: UBC Press.
Type:
Research article
Description:
This chapter describes the Māori context of dementia, a research project that undertook a series of interviews and focus groups to answer how Māori people can humanise the care of elderly Māori, and the author’s personal experience with dementia.
Keywords:
Maori, Māori, services, care, experience, qualitative
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Ma'u, E., Cullum, S., Cheung, G., Livingston, G., & Mukadam, N. (2021). Differences in the potential for dementia prevention between major ethnic groups within one country: A cross sectional analysis of population attributable fraction of potentially modifiable risk factors in New Zealand. The Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific, 13, 100191.
Type:
Research article
Description:
Etuini Ma'u and colleagues report on how the rate of preventable dementia risk factors varies across ethnic groups in New Zealand. The relative contribution of individual risk factors varied by ethnic group.
Keywords:
Maori, Māori, Pasifika, Asian, risk factors, prevention
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Martin, R., & Paki, P. (2012). Towards inclusion: The beginnings of a bicultural model of dementia care in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dementia, 11(4), 545-552..
Type:
Research article
Description:
This article describes the development of a bicultural approach to dementia care in Tai Tokerau (Northland), Aotearoa New Zealand. It emphasises the need to provide care for Māori people with dementia within the context of extended family structures in order to improve their representation in dementia services
Keywords:
Maori, Māori, services, care
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Menzies, O., Garrett, N. et al. He Taonga Te Wareware: Connecting Older Māori Experiences of Wairuatanga with Mate Wareware (Dementia). J Cross Cult Gerontol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-023-09492-4

Type:
Research article
Description:
This study investigates the presence of wairuatanga within kaumātua lives, drawing upon 61 interviews with kaumātua to glean a Māori understanding of mate wareware and to develop a diagnostic screening tool for mate wareware.
Keywords:
Māori, culture, experience, assessment, preventative factors, wairua, mate wareware
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Menzies, O., Dudley, M., Garrett, N., Elder, H., Daniels, P., & Wilson, D. (2021). He Tūhononga Whaiaro: A Kaupapa Māori Approach to Mate Wareware (Dementia) and Cognitive Assessment of Older Māori. Journal of Applied Gerontology. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648211037504

Type:
Research article
Description:
In an important new paper Oliver Menzie, Makarena Dudley and colleagues report on emergent themes that could improve the assessment of kaumātua (older Māori) referred for possible mate wareware (dementia), with examples of questions to assess these themes.
Keywords:
Maori, Māori, culture, experience, assessment, preventative factors
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