Links to further information and funding
If you are a person with disability-related needs, you may be eligible for Ministry of Health funding for specialised equipment or housing modifications. Click on the following links for further information on housing modifications or specialised equipment funding.
We have a fantastic supplier in Mt Maunganui, Pam Geddes of Mobility Solutions BOP. Go and see her if you're in the area. She's a fount of knowledge.
And Graham Scott of Combined Plumbers, in Wanganui, is our supplier in the south of the north.
We have included here a list of useful sites which we think might help you to be able to make your decision about choosing the right bath for you. If you know of any others we should add, please contact us and let us know.
ACC: Contacting ACC
ACC: Information about falls and fall prevention
ACC: Information about falls in older adults
ACC: Wet area safety
Accessable: Organisation covering Northland and Auckland which assesses applications for housing modifications.
Age Concern New Zealand: Information about designing your house to suit you as you age.
Age Concern New Zealand: Information about how you can continue to stay in your home as you age
Carersnetnz: Help for New Zealand’s family, whanau and aiga carers
Diabetes NZ: information and help for people New Zealanders living with diabetes
Enable New Zealand: home page for the biggest provider of equipment and housing modification services for the Health and Disability Sector in New Zealand; the largest provider of Disability Information Services in New Zealand; and home to Supportlinks - one of the best Needs Assessment and Service Coordination Services in New Zealand.
Enable New Zealand: Information about eligibility for funding for equipment from Ministry of Health
Enable New Zealand: Information about eligibility for funding for housing modifications from Ministry of Health
Everybody.co.nz: consumer health information
Extract from 'Modern Hydrotherapy for the Massage Therapist' by Marybetts Sinclair
Lifetime Design: 'Describes a way of designing products and places that will deliver the greatest ease of use for most people and allow adaptations in the future as needs change.'
Life Unlimited: information for New Zealanders with disabilities
Massage New Zealand: Information about the benefits of massage.
Massage New Zealand is a self-regulated association and incorporated society with a constitution, a code of ethics and a complaints procedure.
Ministry of Health: Eligibility for housing modifications
Ministry of Health: Information about Ministry-funded disability support services in New Zealand
Ministry of Health: Information about subsidised carer support
Ministry of Health: information on the role of disability services within the Ministry of Health, the disability support services funded by the Ministry of Health, current projects and programmes. It also provides some useful links to disability support services not funded by the Ministry of Health.
NZ Association of Occupational Therapists
NZ Federation of Disability Information Centres: national organisation of disability information/resource centres providing information and referral service.
NZ Rehabilitation Association Inc: 'Advocating rehabilitation, debating the issues, connecting the people'
NZ Society of Physiotherapists
Weka: New Zealand’s disability information website for people with disabilities, their families, whanau and caregivers, health professionals and disability information providers. Walk In Baths Ltd is listed on this website under providers of bathroom equipment, right at the bottom of the list |
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