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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Aged Care Strategy Draft Now Available

Some older Australians with diverse needs find it difficult to access aged care information and services that are sensitive to their backgrounds and circumstances.

As part of the Older Australians from Diverse Backgrounds strategy of the Living Longer Living Better aged care reform package, the Government announced that consultation would occur with groups representing people with diverse needs to assess the requirement for the development of further tools and/or strategies to support their needs in aged care.

The Strategy will help inform the way Government responds to the needs of older people from CALD backgrounds and better support the aged care sector to deliver care that is sensitive and appropriate to their care needs.

The draft National Aged Care Strategy for People from CALD Backgrounds is now accessible online via the Department of Health and Ageing website

 Acknowledgements

Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing acknowledges and pays respect to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, on whose land this website was developed. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their ancestors and elders, both past and present and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We hope our work contributes to the wider project of respect and recognition between cultures in Australia. Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing receives project funding from the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care to administer the Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care (PICAC) program in Victoria.

 

Did you know?

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37% of people aged 65 years and over in Australia were born overseas.
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There are over 400 separately identified languages spoken in Australian homes.
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Australians follow more than 120 religious and spiritual beliefs.
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28% percent of people using home care and 20% percent of people using permanent residential care are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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36%
36% of care attendants in residential aged care are identified as being from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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Australia’s Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. But there is great diversity within these two broadly described groups exemplified by the over 250 different language groups spread across the nation.