Election year:
2023
Political party:
Act
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Senior Citizens
- Reform the Retirement Commission so it’s focussed on retirement villages and aging-in-place
- Require the Retirement Commission to design a regulatory framework to enable individualised funding of in-home care
- Reverse the ban on over-the-counter pseudoephedrine
- Require post-implementation evaluations of pharmacist-only and prescription-only classifications for medicines used to cure common ailments
- Introduce a range of policies to ease the health workforce crisis and ensure there is proper planning and forecasting to meet the needs of an ageing population.
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