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Care Guide for Health Care Assistants in aged residential care webinar

Aged residential care
24 July 2025
1:00 PM  - 2:00 PM

The Care Guide for Health Care Assistants in aged residential care webinar introduces a new national resource that supports health care assistants by providing prompts while caring for frail older people living in aged care. 

 About the guide:

This new guide includes relevant information for health care assistants on topics including a chapter on tikanga Māori for kaumātua. The guide has also been aligned with the RN Frailty Care Guides. It replaces the original caregiver guide that was developed by Waitemata DHB in 2010. 

 The presenters are:

  • Carol Pilcher, Community Gerontology Nurse Practitioner, Older Adults & Home Health
  • Helen Bowen, Nurse Practitioner, Older Adults, Waitemata District
  • Mathilda Matthews, Māori Gerontology Nurse Specialist, Community Older Adults

Hosted by:

  • Nikki Grae, Senior Manager, Quality Systems, Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission

 Register for the free webinar

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