WECARE.NZ CAMPAIGN STORY Renee’s Story Dear Hon Penny Simmonds and Paula Tesoriero, I am a carer of two (potentially three) children with challenges such as Autism, Intellectual Disability, ADHD, Anxiety, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Avoidant Food Restrictive Disorder, Sleep-onset Association and Learning Difficulties such as (but not limited to) dyslexia. These are children with high emotional …
Jobseeker policy plan leaves carers concerned. Some carers are anxious National’s planned policy for job seekers will mean they will face stricter work test rules. Carers who look after family or other community members are unsure what National’s plan to get more people into paid work might mean for them. Hundreds of thousands of New …
Concerns over unregulated healthcare assistant workforce. They’re one of the biggest workforces in the country – more than 30,000 healthcare assistants are currently working in hospitals, aged care facilities and private homes. But some within the sector say this unregulated workforce is increasingly being used as cheap substitutes for nurses, without the training, recognition or …
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Needs assessment services under fire from families. People with disabilities are waiting longer to have their needs assessed, and others already through the system say it is inconsistent and confusing. More people are being referred for needs assessments, and since 2020 they are taking twice as long to be seen. Data provided to Newsroom by …
WECARE.NZ CAMPAIGN STORY Cherie Story My job is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week In 2003, I became a mother to twins. My daughter, Holly, was healthy, and my son, Mitchell, was born with a rare disorder. For the first 2 years of his life Mitchell lived in Starship hospital, mostly in the …
WECARE.NZ CAMPAIGN STORY Allanah Story Supporting disabled family carers Allanah is one of the 40+% of New Zealand family carers who have a disability themselves while caring for other family members who are unwell or have disabilities. While the role of family caring is largely invisible and unsung in our country, this is especially so …
WECARE.NZ CAMPAIGN STORY Wendy Slieker Sandwich generation caregiving Life can change in a flash, with none of us immune. No one knows that better than Wendy Slieker and her husband Steve Kallipolitis. Steve, an engineer, experienced a sudden cardiac arrest while out running in 2011. His heart stopped for 27 minutes, leading to a severe …
WECARE.NZ CAMPAIGN STORY Family Carer: Maxine Hall “I have two co-existing emotions: exhaustion and dread.” I am exhausted because in the past six years, I have had only about 20 days when I wasn’t a full- time carer, and 14 of those were when I was in hospital with an ankle broken in eight places. …
