Lay summary
Stroke affects over 8000 New Zealanders annually, with poorer outcomes for Māori than non-Māori. While acute care and rehabilitation pathways for newly acquired stroke are more established in New Zealand, our preliminary work has highlighted fragmentation and inconsistency in community-based rehabilitation services and supports. This creates challenges for people living with stroke and their whānau to rehabilitate and live well in the longer term. Our objectives are to: 1) establish a co-design team consisting of people living with stroke, their whānau, the Stroke Foundation, Māori and Pasifika support services, and researchers; 2) describe and analyse the services available in Canterbury for people living with stroke and their whānau, including barriers to access; and 3) incorporate the Whānau Ora and Enabling Good Lives principles of self-determination to co-design the core principles and modes of delivery for a navigational and wayfinding system - to be trialled in an HRC Service Delivery Project.