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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

Needs assessment

27: Who initiates needs assessment

You could also call this:

"Who can ask for or get a needs assessment for help with care or support"

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You can ask for a needs assessment if you are 65 years or older and eligible for funding. You can also ask for a needs assessment if you are a special case person. Health New Zealand can decide to do a needs assessment for you at any time if you could have asked for one yourself.

You might want to look at the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 to learn more about changes to needs assessments. Health New Zealand can start a needs assessment on its own for people who could have applied for one. This can happen at any time, and it is part of how Health New Zealand works with people who need support.

You can also compare this to older laws, like the one from 1964, to see how things have changed.

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Part 5Needs assessment

27Who initiates needs assessment

  1. A person may at any time apply for a needs assessment if the person is—

  2. aged 65 years or over; and
    1. funding eligible.

      1. A person who is a special case person may at any time apply for a needs assessment.

      2. Health New Zealand may at any time on its own initiative conduct a needs assessment of a person who could apply under subsection (1) or (2).

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      Notes
      • Section 27(3): amended, on , by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).