Home4All

02/02/2026

Home4All
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 😄

18/01/2026

Would anyone have any yarn we could have please?
We recently have some visitors who love to knit, but we gave all our supply away when we moved to Waikanae.
Thank you so much.
Please pm to arrange

30/12/2025

Music lifts the spirit improves Quality of life

The role of music in calming and engaging New Zealand dementia patients will be studied by University of Auckland scientists who foresee a greater role for the low-cost “treatment”.

“Family members know the big difference that music can make – singing and listening to music can evoke responses when little else does,” says Dr Samuel Mehr, director of The Music Lab at the University, who will lead the study.

Listening to music can calm dementia patients or unlock memories and feelings that don’t otherwise surface. For Maōri with dementia (mate wareware), waiata can be an important facet of care.

Expanding the role of music as a tool for treating patients would contribute to New Zealand’s response to the global health crisis caused by soaring cases of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

University of Auckland Professor Lynette Tippett and Dr Carolyn Fredericks, an expert in Alzheimer's neuroimaging at Yale University, will collaborate on the research.

Caregivers will be surveyed multiple times per day about musical activities, patient mood, patient distress, and their own mood, to determine links between musical activities and well-being in people with dementia, as well as the effects on caregivers.

The Music Lab is a collaboration between Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland and Yale University in the US.

Read more about the study here: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025/12/05/scientists-investigate-music-as-dementia-treatment.html

22/12/2025

Thank you all for your unwavering support!!

22/12/2025

Our Home4All community came together last week to celebrate a beautiful Christmas feast, and what a wonderful day it was!!! Thank you to everyone and from all of us to all of you.... "We wish you a Merry Christmas" 🎄

19/12/2025

19/12/2025

We want to say a huge thank you to the sponsors of our Christmas party this year! From meat for the barbecue to gifts to thank our wonderful volunteers, and everything in between. Thank you!!!

M&M Master Butchers The Warehouse Woolworths New Zealand PAK'nSAVE Kapiti New World Kapiti

(Keep an eye out for more pictures of the party!)

18/12/2025

Dementia for ‘OLD’ people
No way !

15/12/2025

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