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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Meeting the demographic challenges ahead: Toward culture change in an ageing New Zealand

Edward Alan Miller, Vincent Mor and Mark Booth

Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 5(1) -
Published: 2008

Abstract

There are several innovative service delivery models in the United States (US) relevant to longterm care policy development and implementation in New Zealand. An especially fruitful source of innovation has been the culture change movement, which originated in the US but has begun to spread to New Zealand and other OECD countries. The culture change philosophy requires that providers respond to the values, preferences, and needs of care recipients. It also requires devolving authority to direct care workers who know their clients best, in addition to transitioning from sterile 'clinical' settings to more homelike environments. New Zealand has a more favourable policy context for improving long-term care than the US. Thus, it is critical that it build upon these short term advantages to promote further dissemination of the culture change ethos, thereby placing caregivers in a better position to meet current care challenges, not to mention those posed by growth in the elderly population ahead.

https://doi.org/10.1071/HP080505

© CSIRO 2008

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