KORA Project - Strengthening dementia support

Lead organisation:

Alzheimers New Zealand 

The KORA Project (Knowledge, Outcomes, Reflection, Action) is a national initiative to strengthen dementia support. It will co-develop tiered competency and knowledge framework for enablement practice and working with distressed behaviours. It will be supported by practical tools, a national resource website, and an AI-enabled reflective practice platform. 

The AI enabled reflective practice platform will be piloted across residential care, home-based support, and community services. The development of the competency and knowledge framework, and associated resources to guide practice aims to reach 27,000 aged care workers (75% of the workforce). Outcomes include improved staff retention and wellbeing, reduced distress incidents and antipsychotic use, and greater independence for people living with dementia. 

KORA is innovative in replacing one-off courses with continuous learning in the flow of work, elevating frontline voices, and turning everyday experience into organisational insights. Designed to be transferable across disability support, mental health and addiction, and social services, the project will also test a sustainable pricing model and produce a final learning report to support wider sector adoption.