Grey Power March 2017

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Peter pointed out that this field was
evolving and suggested that Grey Power
read about the New South Wales Medicinal
Cannabis Compassionate Use Scheme
which is intended to extend compassion
to adults with a terminal illness. For more
information, the web address is http://
www.health.nsw.gov.au/cannabis/pages/default.aspx)
NB: There is a very clear distinction
between pharmaceuticals professionally
produced from cannabis and raw cannabis
plants for smoking or including in
home-made food products. These latter
when used for self-medication or smoking
are illegal and we see no benefit to
our members in pushing for legalisation.
We believe self-medication, with any
product for any complaint is ill-advised,
potentially hazardous and as such is not
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supported by the Federation.
P.S. Since Grey Power’s visit Associate
Health Minister Peter Dunne has announced
that cannabis-based medicine
will no longer require ministerial signoff,
the Ministry of Health will approve
its use.
(ISSUE 2)
The meeting discussed tax relief for
those who pay for private medical insurance
Grey Power policy is to advocate for
tax relief re private health insurance premiums.
United Future’s leader Hon Peter
Dunne supports Grey Power policy and
believes NZ could learn from the Australia
Sudoku where Puzzle people 3 with Solution private health
insurance currently receive a government
funded rebate to help cover the cost of
their premiums. In fact, the government
provides a higher rebate for people aged
over 65 (and even higher for people over
70) on private health insurance. Peter
was adamant that this benefit must only
apply to the policy holder, not the insurance
company and that legislation would
be required to enforce tax deductions.
Also, he wants an annual free health
check, carried out by a practice nurse,
for over 65 year olds, believes in the efficient
use of health resources and that
DHBs should only utilise private provid-
COMMUNITIES
(ISSUE 1)
The meetings’ purpose was to acquaint
Government and opposition parties with
Grey Power’s support for NZ affiliation to
the World Health Organisation’s (WHO)
Age Friendly Cities and Communities
global network and to gain Government
commitment to further consideration of
adopting NZ affiliation as policy and to
promoting this as a cross party initiative.
Grey Power’s policy mission is to promote
New Zealand’s affiliation to the
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ers when the public system is unable to
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ADVOCACY REPORT
WHO Age Friendly Cities and Communities
cept checklist covers most of the issues
(AFCC) global network, as a mecha-
that Grey Power advocates on it is pleascept
nism to support and encourage local action
ing that both Labour and the Govt. Min-
on healthy ageing by all sectors of the ister will consider the matter; also, MSD
community.
provided the following useful information
Research both in New Zealand and internationally
that they are looking for a national
confirms that for older people
framework with each community doing
ageing in place is synonymous with in-
its own thing. The principles of AFCC
dependence, and that the sense of ‘place’ were important and also that partners
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in which they wish to age comprises both such as Grey Power, Age Concern and Alzheimer’s
the ‘home’ and the community in its widest
NZ would be desirable – these
sense, encompassing both people and groups could inform the community of
social networks with geographical, historical
AFCC
and cultural aspects [4, 5]. Wiles
et al also note that in addition to the home SUPERGOLD CARD (SGC) OFF-PEAK
environment, consideration should also TRAVEL (ISSUE 2) AND THE SGC AS A
be given to transport, recreation, social IDENTIFICATION CARD (ISSUE 3)
interaction, culture and education. They Grey Power’s policy position is that access
also explicitly note the importance of facilities
to SGC funded travel must remain
that promote physical activity including
universal. i.e. the SGC must be acceptable
active mode transport options. as a token for subsidised travel anywhere will be provided.
The basic WHO model is for individual in Grey the country Power and CodeWord that funding for No. SGC 7 (March She also 17) offered to write to the banking by PMH
communities and cities to become members
travel must be met entirely from the Con-
ombudsman and banks asking that they
of the AFCC global network in their solidated Fund, i.e. changes to funding
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mercial and not for profit organisations
active in the area.
It is important to note that apart from
the secretariat function noted above, the
affiliate organisation does not fund the
process. This remains the function of the
individual communities. We further note
that the creation of Age Friendly Communities
is not predicated on extra funding
but rather the re-alignment of existing
budgets to AFCC outcomes.
Grey Power’s gain was that because
the Age-Friendly city/community con-
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The method chosen by Auckland
Transport to implement the requirement
for electronic ticketing has effectively destroyed
the universality of the Gold Card
despite the Minister’s statement that:
“the recent review of the Scheme retained
the entitlements for SuperGold cardholders
and the eligibility of services already
in the Scheme. SuperGold cardholders
will continue to access the Scheme as they
could prior to the review.”
In addition, the imposed requirement
to not only purchase an electronic ticket,
but to load and maintain a cash balance
on it both destroys the concept of transport
free to the user, but puts such travel
beyond the reach of some with resulting
loss to the economy, and increased health
costs from factors such as social isolation.
Grey Power’s position on the ticketing
system used by Auckland Transport has
always been that for any travel scheme
that involves ticketing, the cost of ticketing
is an integral business cost. Since the
SGC travel scheme funds either the trip
(as now) or the service (in the future) that
funding includes payment for the provision
of ticketing, be that manual or electronic.
Any attempt to charge the end
user in addition is blatant double dipping.
Grey Power’s gain on issues 2 and 3
were that the Hon Maggie Barry said she
is cautiously optimistic that a smart card
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