About
A trusted local person for Kiwi families overseas.
Your Person NZ is a local coordination and concierge service for New Zealanders living overseas who have a parent or family member living independently in Christchurch and Canterbury. We are not an aged-care, nursing, medical or personal-care provider — we coordinate practical, everyday local support (trades, house checks, errands, appointments and similar) through appropriate third-party providers, who generally quote and invoice the family directly.
About
Why Your Person NZ exists
Stephanie Sisson — Founder, Your Person NZ
My first two jobs, at sixteen and seventeen, were at a rest home.
I was young, not remotely qualified for most of what the job actually taught me, and I discovered something I've never really shaken off: I like older people. They were funny, opinionated, stubborn, occasionally infuriating — and very definitely still themselves.
Since then I've spent my career solving complicated operational problems and getting things done — the kind of work where you walk into a mess and find a way through it, fast. Your Person NZ brings those two things together.
I don't think getting older should turn anyone into a "care recipient." Most people just want to keep running their own lives — sometimes with a bit of trusted, practical help on the ground. And for sons and daughters living overseas, what you often need most isn't a service. It's a capable person back home who can sort things out.
That's what Your Person NZ is here to be.
What this isn't
Not home care. Not taking over. Just really useful help.
Mum or Dad may be entirely independent — still driving, travelling, gardening, working, socialising, with zero interest in being 'looked after.' Sometimes they just need another capable person nearby, and sometimes the family overseas needs to know someone in New Zealand can help when they can't.
Your Person NZ works with the family, not around them. The aim is to make life easier while protecting independence, choice and dignity.
Your Person NZ operates in Christchurch and wider Canterbury, New Zealand — for now.
We're starting small on purpose, so we can do this properly before we grow.