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A new report released by Jewish Care and the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, outlines the issues facing the community. Older Jewish Australians represents a first time collation of census data and survey findings, to provide detail and direction for planning. Professor Andrew Markus, of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University and the...

On Saturday 12 November 2011, the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing hosted the inaugural ‘Ageing in Australia: Cultural Diversity in Aged Care Expo’. Targeted at people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Melbourne, the free expo aimed to provide information about aged care and support services available in Australia. Over 30 exhibitors specialising in aged care...

A new resource has been developed by Centre for Philippine Concerns Australia to assist aged care providers in delivering culturally appropriate care. This resources aims to: Provide a cultural tool to guide residential care providers in planning for cultural celebrations with their residents. Explain the Filipino ways of caring, family traditions and culture. Address the language difficulties...

7-8 June 2012, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

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5-12 December 2011, The Atrium, Federation Square, Melbourne In 2011, Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities (ADEC) will again be proudly presenting ArtAbility® to the public, with support from the City of Melbourne. The exhibition will run from 5th to 12th December, and will be located at The Atrium, Federation Square, as it has been in years past. This exhibition unites a range of...

SBS radio in Victoria has just commenced a radio campaign to promote the Ageing in Australia expo to the public. The messages will be broadcast in Arabic, Cantonese, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Macedonian, Mandarin, Polish, Serbian, Turkish and Vietnamese. The aim is to target a range of ethnic communities and let them know the free event with information about aged care services is available to...

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 1pm-3pm The Brotherhood of St Laurence, along with a host of aged care facilities and services will once again host the popular Celebration of Life dance at Collingwood Town Hall. Everyone is invited to participate in the hotly anticipated dance event, from residential aged care residents to their staff, family and friends. The theme for this event is 'Jail House Rock'...

Do you need information about aged care services in Australia? The Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing presents a free special event which will help you and your loved ones learn about aged care services. You will be able to talk with service providers, receive free advice and collect multilingual information aimed at helping you to navigate the aged care system, as well as enjoying...

Presented by the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Thursday 24 th November 2011, 9.30am – 3.30pm Professional language services are key to effective communication with clients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, recently announced a new initiative that will make...

This report, released on 31st August 2011, describes the key characteristics of services and recipients of aged care packages in the community and also looks at the distribution of services relative to the needs of the population. At 30 June 2010 there were around 47,700 recipients of care packages. Around 1,150 providers delivered low-care packages, 370 providers delivered high-care packages...

Article written by: Geoff Hicks (CPP Worker, Diversitat, Geelong) For some time now Councils have been concerned about the quality, cost, variety and nutritional value of their delivered meals. The existing model of the “Meals On Wheels” program has been replaced by the new, state of the art, “Community Chef” project which was introduced in December 2010 and will produce over 1.2 million meals...

Workers from Australian Multicultural Community Services, Australian Croatian Community Services and Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council have collaboratively organised a cultural briefing to Ballarat Aged Care Assessment Service (ACAS), a 'Living with Dementia' information session a trip to the Ballarat Community Health Centre for the members of the Ballarat Polish and Croatian background...