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Helping you and organisations.
Westpac is committed to helping you with our dementia friendly banking efforts to help and assist people living with dementia and their families. We also want to help other organisations become dementia friendly, we've created white label materials to help.
Helping you.
Your banking
Our staff have been educated to assist people living with dementia and their families, with their banking needs. We can help with things like setting up notifications, direct debits, different account types, withdrawal limits and alternative contacts. Check out our resources for more information on managing your finances after a diagnosis and how to spot signs of financial abuse.
Talk to us
We’ve created a special notification tool so carers and people living with dementia can let us know about their situation. The notification tool adds an alert to the customer's account, enabling our staff to provide extra assistance if required. We’re also partnering with different organisations that can provide professional advice and guidance to customers and their families.
Our branches
All of our branches have been assessed to ensure they are dementia friendly in terms of layout, fixtures and fittings and quiet areas. Our architects apply dementia friendly principles for every new branch we create, and older branches that don’t meet these criteria will be modified as much as practicable to be more dementia friendly. Find your nearest branch.
We're proud to be New Zealand's first dementia friendly bank.
Helping organisations.
We want other organisations to become dementia friendly too, that's why we partnered with Dementia Auckland to create materials that we could share - brochures, checklists, training videos and modules. We're happy to share our resources and learnings with other organisations who want to become dementia friendly, and this is one of the reasons we received a Deloitte Diversity Award in 2015.
Feel free to use these for your own organisation and tailor them to your own purposes as needed.
Training tools
- Why it's important to talk about dementia (video)
- Meet Jeff Attwood, a customer living with dementia (video)
- Dementia training modules (PDF)
Our resources
Our white label Dementia collateral.
Download our suite of white label collateral so you can brand content for your company.
Download suite (ZIP file)
Accreditation.
We're proud to be officially accredited for our efforts by Dementia New Zealand.
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