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The Health of Older People Workstream was disestablished in January 2024. The activity of the group has been transitioned to the Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Ageing Well stream.

The Health of Older People Workstream (HOPWS) is enabling older people to live well at home and in their community through clinically-led service transformation. The Workstream provides oversight of the Canterbury health system’s strategic direction for older people, with a view towards an integrated system with accessible, organised and coherent services for older people in the community.

Previously the Aged Care Workstream, the HOPWS was established in 2009 as a key leadership and advisory group and aspires to extend independent living for older people. It has been instrumental in establishing several Service Level Alliances and new initiatives to transform services for older adults, including the Medication Management Service (MMS), Community Rehabilitation Enablement Support Team (CREST) and Falls Prevention.

Researching how older people access health information

01 Apr, 2017 | Return|

The Health of Older People Workstream (HOPWS) is supporting research at ARA into how older people access health information. We feel that access to good quality, credible health information is key to keeping our population well and healthy in their own homes.

Over a few weeks this year, at least 10 pharmacies in Canterbury have hosted a research assistant from ARA who has been surveying older pharmacy customers.

The HOPWS is looking forward to the results of this work, hopefully within the first half of this year.

PICTURED: Sapphire Reid, the ARA Research Assistant between two consumers in New Brighton. One consumer, Isabel Linton (right), is the former consumer perspective on the HOPWS.