A combo of quality and quantity is always a great mix and following this pattern the New Zealand’s Labor Party has announced this year’s aged-care policy which is to increase residential care as well as its quality.

It has been found that elderly people feel happy when they are at home and are at ease there. New Zealand has both aged and ageing population and there is a great need to improve the quality of aged care which needs funding and the major problem is that the desired funding is not available with the government. There is a dire need to chalk out a long term plan by which funding could be received and in turn the aged care could be served, said Steve Chadwick, who is Labor aged care spokesperson.

New Zealand’s ageing population is expected to be getting double by 2051 and for now 13% of the NZ population is aged. For now the party is seeing no positive response from the side of the government, which would be taken in order to give quality aged care.

Labor Party was of the view that they would introduce a new model for residential aged care people and would take suggestions from experts like stakeholders, residents, gerontologists and health economists.