Business View Oceania - Mar 2024

Help Trust and Public Trust NZ– that are invaluable to the ongoing success of the Te Hopai facility.” On the agenda for the future, Stewart stresses that dementia level care is “very close to our hearts. In Wellington, we don’t have enough dementia beds – here we have 16 and it’s our intention to build additional small dementia units on the greenfield here. With 5 to 6 beds in three units, so people with similar interests and cultural backgrounds can enjoy a conversation in a familiar environment. There are lots of good models of dementia-specific care in Australia and Europe, so we’re thinking around doing those type of much smaller units.” In essence, Te Hopai is succeeding well as an agile 77 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 06, ISSUE 03 TE HOPAI HOME & HOSPI TAL