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For Whānau Manaaki Family Caregivers
- Kete Aronui Maori Palliative Care A site for whānau manaaki, family caregivers
- Te Ipu Aronui Road Map
- Kete Tuauri
- Spirituality and wairua
- Karakia definition
- Diverse spiritual faiths and practices
- Spiritual safety and protection
- Spiritual care within hospitals, hospices and aged residential care services
- The power of karakia
- Spiritual support at time of death
- What if you do not know your spiritual care customs?
- Kete Aronui - rongoā
- Rongoā healing
- Forms of rongoā
- Use of rongoā rākau (natural plant medicines) is increasing
- Are you thinking about using rongoā?
- Include your rongoā healer in your health care team
- Self-care
- Te Ipu Aronui’s Kete Tuauri
- Staying with the tūpāpaku
- Karakia before and after death
- Preparing the tūpāpaku (body)
- Caring for the tūpāpaku (body) after death
- Planning and preparation for care following death
- Whakanoa (spiritual clearing of environment process)
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For Health Professionals
- Whanaungatanga - Establishing a relationship
- Connections take time
- First contact - building a rapport
- Rich histories and lifestyles
- Building trusting relationships
- Whānau systems of care Care roles within whānau
- Geographical location and end of life care
- Challenges whānau face
- Cultural safety - more effective than cultural competency
- Cultural safety - a definition
- Māori health and palliative care workforce
- Strengthening Māori cultural safety
- Caring for Māori health professionals
- Tikanga
- Ngākau pono Working with a sincere heart
- Caring with aroha
- Self-care
- Te Reo Māori The Māori language
- New Zealand history
- Kaumātua tino rangatiratanga Independence, authority
- Places kaumātua are cared for
- Dying in a healthcare setting
- Living in a ‘home’
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Pae Herenga Research Background
- Healthcare providers
- Palliative care resources
- Support services
- Grief and loss support
- Research
- Tangihanga and funerals
- Links and Information for Health Professionals
- Te Reo Māori Resources
- Cultural Safety
- New Zealand History
- Pūrākau
- Advanced Care Planning (ACP)
- Medicines Directory
- Publications
- Māori Data Sovereignty
- Covid 19 Study
Bereavement
Recommendations
Recommendations
- We recommend you discuss and process any unhealed trauma with your kaumātua and whānau before the kaumātua dies as this can help to bring peace to a troubled situation and reduce mamae after they die.
- We recommend talking with other kaumātua, a tohunga, minister, rongoā practitioner or G.P. to help clear or process any mamae.
- We recommend that karakia can be be used to bring comfort to a troubled, mind, spirit and body.
- We recommend that people, who experience persistent grief and distress (sometimes referred to, as ‘complex’ grief) following the death of a kaumātua, should talk with their whānau if they find them supportive.
- We recommend talking as a way of releasing and processing grief; talking can be a great healer. Māori healing services may offer storytelling (drawing on pūrākau) to help draw out the mamae.
- If someone in the whānau is grieving and feeling overwhelmed yet unable to reach out to ask for help, we recommend that other whānau or friends approach them to offer their aroha and assistance. A minister, rongoā practitioner or tohunga (spiritual practitioner) can provide helpful spiritual support. In addition to this, the support of the person’s GP or a grief counsellor (hospices and some funeral services have these) might help.