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Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) has released their 'Information on Diabetes' Talking Book in the Macedonian language, in addition to the currently available languages - Italian and Greek. RDNS has acknowledged that it can be difficult for people to understand the details of a health condition when English isn’t their first language. They have produced the RDNS Talking Book series,...

Alzheimer’s Australia will be hosting their inaugural Younger Onset Dementia: A New Horizon - National Summit on Wednesday 20 March 2013 at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. This unique and groundbreaking summit will provide a forum for over 250 service providers, stakeholders and policy makers across the aged care, disability and mental health sectors to discuss and address the...

The Government yesterday launched the National Ageing and Aged Care Strategy for People from CALD backgrounds which will help inform the delivery of Living Longer Living Better – the Government’s $3.7 billion aged care reform package. Mr Butler said the growing number of older people from CALD backgrounds have specific needs that must be addressed. “Around 20 per cent of people aged over 65...

The Meeting Place project is a respite program run by Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre for elderly Italians with dementia. The program began in mid-2012 with two small groups who meet each week to engage in cultural activities and share a meal. The program has been successful in helping to reduce social isolation, alleviate depression and improve self-esteem among people living with moderate to...

The Crime Stoppers Multilingual Project aims to make culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) groups feel more at ease in dealing with police and providing information about crime. The project, a joint initiative between Crime Stoppers and Victoria Police, is now in its ninth year and still going strong with the message ‘Crime is not culturally sensitive’. The project recognises that people...

The link between poorer physical and mental health and self-reported experiences of racism has been well documented. In 2010-2011, VicHealth conducted a survey of 1139 individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in four Victorian localities examined types, settings and frequency of experiences of race-based discrimination and explored the impact of these experiences on...

The Maltese Community Council of Victoria is currently working in conjunction with Carers Victoria to better assist Maltese carers. They are currently trying to build up their database of Maltese Carers (those who care for a parent, child, sibling, relative or friend), in order to be able to notify them of activities as well as on information from the Maltese Carers Support Group. Please pass on...

The Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing has just released our final e-newsletter for the year - Issue No. 12: November 2012 . This latest issue includes information on our upcoming events, including our 2013 Ageing in Australia Expo and our 2014 Cultural Diversity in Ageing Conference . We have also featured some new multilingual resources, such as 'Staying Healthy in the Heat' and 'Healthy...

Following on from the success of the Ageing in Australia: Cultural Diversity in Aged Care Expo last year, the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing will once again host the Expo at the Melbourne Town Hall in 2013. The Expo assists people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities access information about aged care and support services that are available to them. Exhibitors include...

The Chinese Community Social Service Centre Inc. will host a cross-cultural awareness workshop at their Box Hill office on 7 December 2012. Titled 'Put Yourselves in Their Shoes', the workshop is targeted at aged care staff and community service workers and will provide participants with useful information, resources and insights on the beliefs, atitudes, and family relationships and dynamics of...

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...

The Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing hosted a stall at the Victorian Seniors Festival Opening Day at Federation Square on Sunday 7 October. The event provided us with an opportunity to talk with the public about aged care services in Australia, and distribute bilingual information in 17 different languages. We were lucky enough to have a group of bilingual aged care professionals helping...