Ministry of Health, New Zealand Country Resources Neurological disorders including dementia New Zealand 31 December 2002 Report

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This report Dementia in New Zealand: Improving Quality in Residential Care (the Dementia Care Report) provides recommendations from the Dementia Working Group on improving the quality of residential care for people with dementia.
The Ministry of Health supports the recommendations listed in the report and agrees with the working group’s assessment of the impact of dementia on people’s lives, and the subsequent importance of:

Early diagnosis through high quality assessment
appropriate intervention through therapies and activities
an active partnership between family carers and professionals
high quality residential care through improved training, staffing, restraint and medication practices, and other measures outlined in the Dementia Care Report.

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