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15/02/2026

Young onset..
Dementia hits younger people as well as older people ! At Home4All many of our visitors are under 65 years of age.
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This week, representatives from the Young Onset Dementia Collective sat down with a group of frontline Te Whatu Ora clinicians and specialists. They reached out to us because they are seeing a significant rise in referrals of people under 65 with young onset dementia—and they know the system isn’t coping.

Around the table were psychiatrists, occupational therapists, social workers, physicians, and other specialists working in dementia care. It was an honest, open conversation, and one thing became very clear: the people needing support and the people trying to provide it are both struggling inside a system that isn't designed for young onset dementia.

Far too often families tell us how hard it is to navigate the health system—how confusing, fragmented, and unresponsive it can feel. This week, we heard the same frustration from the clinicians on the inside. They see the gaps. They know the pathways don’t exist. They feel the same helplessness when there’s nowhere appropriate to refer people, no services that fit, and no clear support for younger families.

It’s easy to blame the frontline staff when the system fails—but they are not the problem. They are working within a structure that is not fit for purpose. They don’t have the tools, the services, or the pathways needed to support the growing number of people living with young onset dementia.

This is not a clinician problem.
This is not a family problem.
This is a government problem—and it needs a government-level solution.

Right now, people with young onset dementia and their whānau are being lost, ignored, and let down by a system that is not fit for purpose. And the numbers of people living with young onset dementia is growing. We can’t keep pretending the current system is good enough. It isn’t. The people affected don’t have time to wait.

This is an election year.
If young onset dementia matters to you, your whānau, or your community, ask the hard questions. Look for the parties and candidates who have clear, specific policies for young onset dementia—not just token mentions and general promises about ageing or disability.

Your vote is your voice.
Use it to demand a system that sees, supports, and respects people living with young onset dementia.

12/02/2026

09/02/2026

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09/02/2026

A beautiful sight to see so many smiles, we know we're on to a good thing here at Home4All.
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03/02/2026

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02/02/2026

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What a fantastic week!

31/01/2026

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Home4All is a social enterprise farm in Kapiti providing opportunities to visitors living with Dementia to engage with like-minded people, create human connections, and stay active.

I loved meeting two former engineers removing nails from wood in the workshop, for birthbaths and other wooden artisan pieces that will be sold to raise funds for the farm.

Another visitor was helping cook up a chicken lunch, and downstairs is the famous two seat pedallo-style bike with carriage behind that enables informal and crucial conversations for visitors to share what’s happening in their lives with their support volunteer or centre staff.

This Dutch model is seen as cutting edge in NZ yet commonplace in Europe. Evidence shows overwhelmingly that keeping people with dementia active and participating in purposeful action shows — sometimes dramatically - their decline and eventual residency requirements.

Home 4 All struggles with funding in a system that makes arbitrary choices about who qualifies for support depending on whether it’s ACC, disability, health or mental health.

We need rational funding that invests in prevention to save taxpayers the huge bills that come with avoidable hospitalisation and/or avoidale residential care. We also need better support for carers that is consistent regardless of why the person they look after needs care.

Thanks Jan, Chris and the team for showing me this beautiful place in Kapaiti and for all the inspiring work you do. Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New Zealand

27/01/2026

Thank you for so many heartwarming reactions. Just give us some time to arrange it all! See post below.

We would really appreciate your help in making our new garden nice as the old one was, when Home4All was still in Raumati. Our dayvisitors love to be out in the garden and assist with weeding and admire the flowers.
In the past, we had so much support by
many of you, so we ask again:
‘would anyone have some cuttings or seedlings to go into our ‘flower-garden-to-be’ please?’
Our volunteer ‘gardener’ is most willing to come to your place and pick it up, or you could drop it off an see the place for yourself.
Could you reply please by sending a pm

26/01/2026

Sooooo good to have the Home4All team back together again for 2026!!!
We have plenty of room here and would love you to join us 😄