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For Whānau Manaaki Family Caregivers
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- The power of karakia
- Spiritual support at time of death
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- Planning and preparation for care following death
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For Health Professionals
- Whanaungatanga - Establishing a relationship
- Connections take time
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- Rich histories and lifestyles
- Building trusting relationships
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- Geographical location and end of life care
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Pae Herenga Research Background
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Pae Herenga Study
Pae Herenga Research Team
The Pae Herenga team is guided by the Te Ārai Kāhui Kaumātua Advisory Group
The Pae Herenga team is led by a small group of researchers from the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group (School of Nursing, University of Auckland), as well as academics from other departments and community research collaborators.
Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Principal Investigator
Mr Rawiri Wharemate, Named Investigator
Professor Merryn Gott, Named Investigator
Professor Linda Nikora, Named Investigator
Associate Professor Janine Wiles, Named Investigator
The Pae Herenga team is a bicultural team made up of kaumātua, members of the Te Ārai Palliative and End of Life Research Group (University of Auckland), community Māori researchers, academics, clinicians, geographers and rongoā and spiritual practitioners. You can find out more about some of the team members by reading their biographies (click on their names).
A number of research assistants and administrators have also supported the three-year study at different times over the course of the project:
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Transciption support: Dr Shoba Naya
Kia ora, my name is Tess Huia Moeke-Maxwell (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Makaurau & Ngāti Porou). Following on from my post-doctoral investigation (2009 - 2012) on Māori end of life experiences, I’ve worked in the School of Nursing, University of Auckland as a Research Fellow and a founding member of the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group. In 2017 I was awarded a project grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand to lead the Pae Herenga study. The Kāhui Kaumātua Rōpū for Te Ārai asked me to lead a study to gather information about the traditional care customs whānau manaaki (family carers) use to care for their kaumātua (older person) at the end of their life, and to share this with Māori whānau who will be called on to provide care to their kaumātua. We also wanted to share this information with Hospice New Zealand, palliative care professionals as well as health and social care professionals more broadly. We are grateful to Hospice NZ for supporting this study since its inception.
The Pae Herenga study is important as there is an anticipated rise in older Māori deaths over the next thirty years; we need to prepare ourselves for the privilege of caring for our kaumātua. On behalf of my team, I would like to thank each and every person and whānau who took part in the Pae Herenga study. Without everyone’s support we would not have been able to complete this piece of work.
He rau ringa oti ai.
Many hands make light work.
Professor Merryn Gott is the director of Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group . Merryn set up the Te Ārai research group in collaboration with her colleagues in 2014 (most of us are from the School of Nursing, University of Auckland). We are a multi-disciplined group of researchers who are committed to improving the ageing experiences and health outcomes of older New Zealanders. We conduct research that feeds into education, policy and public health programmes to support whānau and families, as well as and health and palliative care services, to provide excellent end of life care.
The Pae Herenga team. This photo was taken November 2nd 2017 at our first full team hui, Auckland. Absent: Andy Peters, Francis Te Pou and Donna Kerridge.
Donna Kerridge
(Waikato te Iwi)
Donna Kerridge is a rongoā Māori practitioner and policy advocate, with a background in Health Science.
Frances Toohey (Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa)
Frances Toohey worked as a research assistant on the Pae Herenga study and she also completed a summer studentship funded by the Health Research Council to help develop a supportive resource book and bibliography to contribute to future publications for Pae Herenga. Frances is currently in her fifth year of medical school at the University of Auckland.
Dr Lisa Williams
Lisa Williams is a research fellow in the School of Nursing. Her research interests are palliative care and end of life and the dissemination of research findings using the creative arts.
Associate Professor Janine Wiles
Janine is a geographer and gerontologist who works in the School of Population Health at The University of Auckland. Her research and teaching work focuses on care, community, place, ageing well, qualitative research methodologies, and a contextual and critical approach to resilience. She is a pākehā woman who grew up in Tokoroa in the South Waikato.
Kat Mason
Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou
Kat is a Research Assistant at the School of Nursing, University of Auckland. She has a Bachelor of Health Science (Māori Health) and has an interest in Kaupapa Māori Research, in particular, how researchers care for and analyse the kōrero whānau share. Kat was born in Auckland, raised in Blenheim and is of Rongowhakaata and Ngāti Porou descent.
Professor Linda Nikora
(Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Ngāi Tūhoe descent)
Linda Waimarie Nikora is a New Zealand psychology academic. She is a Named Investigator on the Pae Herenga study.
Professor Merryn Gott
Professor Merryn Gott is the director of Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group (https://tearairesearchgroup.org/). Merryn set up the Te Ārai research group in collaboration with her colleagues in 2014 (most of us are from the School of Nursing, University of Auckland).
Nette Scurr (BNurs)
Nette Scurr, featured with Matua Walter Thompson (kaumātua, Te Ārai). Nette has a nursing background in palliative care and was a research assistant on the Pae Herenga study.
Rawiri Wharemate
(Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Tainui, Ngāti Pukenga descent)
Rāwiri is the founding kaumātua and advisor for the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group, School of Nursing, University of Auckland. He is of Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Tainui, Ngāti Pūkenga descent. Rawiri also has extensive experience in the Child and Youth Mental Health fields.
Tess Huia Moeke-Maxwell
Kia ora, my name is Tess Huia Moeke-Maxwell (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Makaurau & Ngāti Porou). Following on from my post-doctoral investigation (2009 - 2012) on Māori end of life experiences, I’ve worked in the School of Nursing, University of Auckland, as a Research Fellow and a founding member of the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group. In 2017 I was awarded a project grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand to lead the Pae Herenga study. The Kāhui Kaumātua Rōpū for Te Ārai asked me to lead a study to gather information about the traditional care customs whānau manaaki (family carers) use to care for their kaumātua (older person) at the end of their life, and to share this with Māori whānau who will be called on to provide care to their kaumātua. We also wanted to share this information with Hospice New Zealand, palliative care professionals as well as health and social care professionals more broadly. We are grateful to Hospice NZ for supporting this study since its inception.
The Pae Herenga study is important as there is an anticipated rise in older Māori deaths over the next thirty years; we need to prepare ourselves for the privilege of caring for our kaumātua. On behalf of my team, I would like to thank each and every person and whānau who took part in the Pae Herenga study. Without everyone’s support we would not have been able to complete this piece of work.
He rau ringa oti ai.
Many hands make light work.
Vanessa Eldridge
(Ngāti Kahūngunu and Rongomaiwahine)
Vanessa has a background in nursing and now leads a diverse work programme at Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington. She has developed innovative programmes with Māori health providers around understanding cancer, caring for whānau at home and loss and grief. She leads the Hospice’s compassionate communities work.
Vanessa is Wellington born and of Rongomaiwahine and Ngāti Kahungunu descent. She has two sons and lives in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Andy Peters
Andy Peters (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahu) is a member of the Te Ārai Kāhui Kaumātua Advisory Group. He is also the President of the NZ Vietnam Veterans' Association. Andy cares deeply about the welfare of veterans and he is a passionate advocate on their behalf.