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Health and Disability Support Groups

This section includes many Health Support Groups that exist to support and assist older people and their families with a variety of needs and illnesses.

Health and Disability Support Groups
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Aids Hotline

24 Info & Phone Support
Freephone: 0800 802 437


Alzheimers Tauranga

Alzheimers TaurangaHeart Icon

"Making life better for all people affected by Dementia"
116 Thirteenth Ave
Tauranga 3144
PO Box 15 553
Phone: 07 577 6344
Freephone: 0800 004 001
Fax: 07 577 6346
Email:

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Arthritis New Zealand

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No longer BOP Office please contact head office.
Phone: 0800 663 463

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Blue Lagoon Charitable Trust

Blue Lagoon Charitable Trust

Hearing Assistance Help for hearing impaired, with education, funding for aids and communication equipment.
Cherrywood
Tauranga 3145
PO Box 8354
Phone: 07 576 1349
Fax: 07 576 1370
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Brainwaves Assoc. Tauranga Support Group Inc

Brainwaves provides rehab for individuals who have suffered a brain injury through accident or stroke. We have access to a wide variety of Rehab Professionals.
Phone: 07 579 9698
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Breast Cancer Support Service

To provide support, advocacy and education to women with breast cancer and their families.
Phone: 07 571 3346


Community Living Trust Therapy Services

Services for adults with intellectual disabilities
Tauranga 3141
PO Box 519
Phone: 07 571 3141
Fax: 07 571 3146


Deaf Aotearoa NZ / BOP Branch

Deaf Aotearoa NZ / BOP Branch

Information and services for the deaf including needs assessment, service co-ordination, training and advocacy
Historic Village
17th Avenue West
Tauranga
Phone: 07 571 5930
Fax: 07 571 5932
Email:
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Diabetes Tauranga Inc

A/H: 07 549 0709
Phone: 07 578 8129


Diabetes Tauranga Inc

Diabetes Tauranga IncHeart Icon

Help line 24/7
Tauranga
PO Box 15002
Phone: 07 571 3422
Email:

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Epilepsy Association of NZ

Western BOP Field Officer
Chadwick House
250 Chadwick Road
Tauranga
Phone: 07 579 6091
Freephone: 0800 202 122
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Hanmer Clinic

Offers intensive outpatient treatment programmes for people with alcohol & drug dependency.
1235 Cameron Road
Tauranga
PO Box 9164
Greerton
Tauranga 3142
Phone: 07 579 6470
Fax: 07 579 6471
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Head Injury Society Waikato

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Support and Information
487 Anglesea Street
Hamilton 3240
P.O Box 1168
Phone: 07 839 1191
Fax: 07 839 5648
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Headway Brain Injury Assoc BOP Inc

Headway Brain Injury Assoc BOP Inc

Info, advocacy & support services to people with brain injury, families and whanau.
31 Gloucester Rd
Hillier Centre
Mount Maunganui 3152
PO Box 10050
Phone: 07 572 4547
Fax: 07 572 4549
Email:
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Health Consumer Service

Health Consumer Service

Advocacy & support for consumers who have concerns about their health or disability.
PO Box 4023
Mount Maunganui 3149
Phone: 07 575 3398 / 07 575 6906
Freephone: 0800 801 482
Fax: 07 575 8100
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Healthline

Free 24 hour telephone health advice from landline or mobile.
Freephone: 0800 611 116


Hearing Dogs

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Training and Support for Hearing Dogs.
PO Box 8117
New Plymouth 4342
Phone: 06 769 5000
Fax: 06 769 5400
Email:

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Heart Foundation Tauranga

Heart Foundation Tauranga

Education, health promotion and cardiac care
47 Fraser St
Tauranga
PO Box 2457
Phone: 07 571 3013
Fax: 07 571 3015
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Impotence Advisory Service


Phone: Free phone 0508 362 867
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Junction Peer Support and Advocacy Services

Offering 1 on 1 peer support, advocacy and support groups for those suffering from mental illnesses. For more information on meetings and times contact the office.
4 Roys Rd
Greerton
Tauranga
Phone: 07 579 9890
Email:
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Kidney Health New Zealand


Freephone: 0800 543 639
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Leukaemia & Blood Foundation


6 Claude Road
Epsom
Auckland
PO Box 99182
Newmarket 1149
Phone: 09 638 3556
Freephone: 0800 151 015
Email:
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LIFE Unlimited Disability Resource Centre Inc

LIFE Unlimited Disability Resource Centre Inc

Disability Information service. Free Hearing Therapy service.
Chadwick House
250 Chadwick Rd
Greerton
Tauranga 3112
Phone: 07 571 6351
Fax: 07 571 6341
Email:
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Macular Degeneration NZ

Macular Degeneration NZ


P O Box 137070
Parnell
Auckland 1511
Phone: 09 307 2103
Fax: 09 307 2021
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ME/CFS Support Group

ME/CFS Support Group


250 Chadwick Rd
Tauranga 3112
Phone: 07 578 7804
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Motor Neuron Disease Assoc NZ/ BOP Branch

Motor Neuron Disease Assoc NZ/ BOP Branch


Tauranga South
PO Box 15063
Phone: 07 578 6161
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Multiple Sclerosis Society (BOP) Inc

Multiple Sclerosis Society (BOP) Inc


55a Edgecumbe Road
Tauranga 3144
PO Box 15309
Phone: 07 571 6898
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Nationwide Health & Disability Advocacy Service

Nationwide Health & Disability Advocacy Service

Provides advocacy,support to resolve complaints, education and information on rights of consumers
Seventeenth Ave
Historic Village
Tauranga 3140
Phone: 07 577 1715
Freephone: 0800 555 050
Fax: 07 577 1712
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Neurological Foundation / BOP



New Zealand Continence Assn

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Phone: 09 236 0610
Freephone: 0800 650 659
Fax: 09 236 0788
Email:

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New Zealand RELAY

New Zealand RELAY

Telecommunication services for people who are Deaf, Hearing Impaired, Deaf/Blind and Speech-impaired. 24/7 service 365 days.
PO Box 106900
Auckland 1143
Phone: TTY 0800 4 713 713
Freephone: Voice 0800 4 715 715
Fax: 0800 4 329 697
Email:

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NZ Addison's Network (NZAN)

Support group for those who have failure of adrenal gland
Phone: 07 572 1430


NZ Federation of Disabiltiy Information Centres

Do you want to know how to access disability support and services?
Phone: 04 298 2914
Freephone: 0800 693 342


Osteoporosis NZ Inc


Wellington
PO Box 688
Phone: 04 499 4862


Parkinsonism Society Tauranga Inc

Parkinsonism Society Tauranga IncHeart Icon


PO Box 714
Tauranga
Phone: 07 572 2952
Fax: 07 572 2950
Email:

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Post Polio Support Society

Post Polio Support Society

National help line
P.O. Box 249
Oamaru 9444
Phone: 0800 476 546
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Prostate Cancer Foundation

Prostate Cancer Foundation

Education on prostate cancer and prostate problems.
PO Box 11 006
Musselburgh
Dunedin 0949
Phone: 0800 627 277 / 0800 477 678
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Prostate Cancer Foundation

Prostate Cancer FoundationHeart Icon

Prostate Awareness & Support
Auckland
Freephone: 0800 627 277

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Recycled Teenagers

Recycled Teenagers

Affiliated Ph3 Cardiac Club. Exercise for older adults post heart, hip replacement sports science. Water exercise based at Fernland spa Wednesdays. Hall based Mon & Wed 14 Norris St. Mt. Maunganui Tues - St Mary's Church cnr Girven Rd and Marlin St, Bayfair
Phone: 07 571 1411
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Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind

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Tauranga Locality Office
73 Sixteenth Ave
Tauranga
Phone: 07 578 2376
Freephone: 0800 24 33 33
Fax: 07 578 8359
Email:

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Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind Telefriend

Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind Telefriend

Sight loss support/peer support
Freephone: 0800 100 051


St John Caring Caller

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Free phone in service, friendly phone calls each day.
Phone: 0800 780 780
Email:

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Stroke Foundation/Midland Field Officers

Stroke Foundation/Midland Field OfficersHeart Icon

BOP/Coromandel
250 Chadwick Road
Chadwick House
Tauranga
Greerton
Phone: 07 571 3050
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Stroke Support


Phone: 07 571 3050


Tauranga BOP Hearing Association

Tauranga BOP Hearing AssociationHeart Icon

Advocacy/Education and information for hearing impaired.
1342 Cameron Road
Greerton 3112
Phone: 07 578 6476
Email:

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Tauranga Ongoing Pain Support Group

Centre for all age groups dealing with chronic pain. Group Meetings held on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at the Central Baptist Church on the corner of Cameron Rd and 13th Ave.
Phone: 07 543 3661
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Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society

Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society

Womens Suppor Group held 2nd or 3rd Friday of every month at 12.30pm. General Support Group on the last Friday of the month. Men's Suppot Group on the 3rd Thursday of the month.
98 Fourteenth Ave
Tauranga
P.O Box 1081
Phone: 07 571 2035
Fax: 07 571 2036
Email:
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Western BOP Mental Health Trust


Phone: 07 577 1457


Zipper Cardiac Support Club

Zipper Cardiac Support Club

Provides information, support and advice to people who are about to have or who have had open-heart surgery
26 Grosmont Tce
Brookfield
Tauranga 3110
Phone: 07 576 5579
Fax: 07 576 5579
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