Live your best life in your own home
Good Friends is a new home care, nursing and personal helper service for New Zealanders who need help to live independently. Our mobile app makes it easy.
How Good Friends can help
Good Friends home help makes it easy to organise personalised, friendly care services that revolve around you.
Help and care services delivered in a way that feels respectful, focused and tailored to your needs - that’s the idea behind Good Friends, the one-of-a-kind helper network that supports happy, healthy independent living. Here’s what you get:
Care and Support
We can provide all your care and home support needs, from helping with your morning shower to assisting with housework. Our friendly helpers and nurses have all the necessary qualifications and experience; they also believe in our underlying philosophy of helping you to live well.
Individual Empowerment
No one knows you better than you know yourself, so we will work closely with you to design your personalised plan for the help you need, delivered just the way you want it. It can include a mix of personal care, nursing, home and garden services provided by helpers hand-picked to ‘click’ with your personality.
Community and Friendship
We want to build a community of helpful people around you who care about your wellbeing, so that you can stay connected to friends, family, hobbies, sports and local events that put more joy into everyday life.
Technology and Innovation
The technology behind Good Friends is user-friendly, even if you’re not a techy sort of person. The app shows you a schedule of your services, plus the helpers providing them. It also provides insightful data to your care team about your health, wellbeing and satisfaction, so you get the best support.
Wellness Centre coming soon
An extension of Good Friends is a planned Wellness Centre in central Christchurch. This purpose-built facility will provide a range of facilities and activities that can be used by Good Friends members.
The Wellness Centre will offer a gym, pool and a range of allied health services. It will also include a community space for hosting a variety of activities, such as indoor bowls, yoga, zumba, arts and craft classes, wine tastings, workshops and more. The public area of the centre will feature a café and bakery, as well as a hair and beauty clinic.
The Wellness Centre is being built at Arvida’s Park Lane retirement community in Addington. Opening is planned for March 2021. Similar centres are being planned for other parts of New Zealand.
Helping you to live your best life
Good Friends is brought to you by Arvida, a local retirement group that’s transforming the aged-care experience in New Zealand.
Arvida’s goal is to create or support living environments that allow older and less-abled New Zealanders to maintain meaningful connections to the people, community and activities they love. Arvida calls this ‘living a life with soul’.
Living a life with soul embraces a holistic view of physical, mental and spiritual health – mind, body, heart and soul. It means being mentally stimulated by social, intellectual and creative experiences that are personalised and meaningful. It encourages the daily pursuit of physical wellbeing by eating, moving, relaxing and sleeping well. And it involves building deeper connections to family, friends and the community, so that everyday life is joyful and interesting.
Good Friends is a natural extension of our mind, body, heart and soul philosophy for care and support. It’s different because it combines humanity and technology to support independent living for those who need assistance.