Professor Ngaire Kerse talks about living well with dementia. Ngaire is a GP in Auckland, Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care and the Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well at the University of Auckland.

After training in primary care in the USA, completing a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, and GP training in New Zealand, Australia, and then a PhD at the University of Melbourne, she has built a programme of research throughout New Zealand over the last two decades.

Patient resources

• Dementia Health Navigator NZ
• Living with dementia help sheets Dementia Australia
• Alzheimers New Zealand
• Dementia NZ
• Carers NZ