Seniors Festival

We are excited to once again be involved in the Victorian Seniors Festival – Celebration Day. The day marks the beginning of a week of more than 2,500 events being run across the state. Together with colleagues from a number of aged care services, we will be handing out information about aged care services in many different languages. Come visit the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing marquee at Federation Square on Sunday 6 October 2019. Look for us along the banks of the Yarra River from 10:30am to 4:00pm.

Did you know that the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing has directories of aged care services and agencies who have bilingual staff?
We've updated the directories with a new registration system that makes it easy to register and to maintain a listing of the languages spoken and staff types you can offer.
Registration is free of charge for all government approved aged care providers including CHSP, Home Care and Residential Aged Care.

Sector Support

The PICAC Alliance is a national body comprising Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care (PICAC) funded organisations in each state and territory. The Alliance aims to be a voice and discussion conduit into information, training and resources about culturally inclusive practice in aged and community care services.

Find out more about resources available across Australia

Royal Commission into Aged Care - CALD Tool Kit

The Federation of Ethnic Communities’ of Australia (FECCA) has developed a tool kit to help organisations and family members have conversations with older people from culturally diverse backgrounds to encourage them to tell their stories to the Royal Commission.
The toolkit includes prompts for conversations which explain:

what the Royal Commission is and how it does it works
why it is important that lots of people from culturally diverse backgrounds tell their stories
the kinds of things people might want to tell the Royal Commission
how to send their stories to the Royal Commission.

The Department of Health has released a poster aimed at supporting Aged Care Diversity Framework action planning in the aged care sector. The Value the Identity, Culture and Diversity of all Older People poster provides a summary of actions that can be taken to support older people from diverse backgrounds.
The A3 poster was recently mailed out to residential facilities across Australia.

Printed copies can be ordered from
Health@nationalmailing.com.au
(use code number U80035)

Multilingual Aged Care Quality Standards Videos

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has released a video aimed at aged care consumers and their families about the Aged Care Quality Standards. The video has been translated into 25 languages.

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Spiritual Care Short Films

Meaningful Ageing Australia has released a series of short films designed to help aged care providers to meet the spiritual care needs of consumers in the context of the new Aged Care Quality Standards.

Resources

Voluntary Assisted Dying translations

The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services has published a document which provides an overview about voluntary assisted dying with information on background, law, access and how it works.
The document is available on the Health Translations website and can be downloaded in Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Spanish and Vietnamese.

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Quality Dementia Care

Dementia Australia has released a Communique which outlines priorities and recommendations that have been developed by people living with dementia, their families and carers.
This work is part of Dementia Australia’s commitment to raising the quality of dementia care in the context of the new Aged Care Quality Standards.

The Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) has been funded by the Organ and Tissue Authority to raise awareness about organ donation in culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
This includes a series of information events taking place across Australia throughout Donate Life Week and throughout August.
A short video has been developed to help start the conversation about organ donation. You can also find in-language resources on the Donate life website.

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Population Data

Diversity by suburb

SBS has launched an interactive website which allows exploration of diversity in every Australian suburb. The data, which includes ancestry, age, religion and birthplace, can be used to identify the composition of your local community and to plan services.

A new profile has been published providing population data of the indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. The data covers population, work and income, education and households and housing statistics. The profile has been developed by id.

Events

The Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia’s biennial conference is taking place in Hobart Tasmania on 9-11 October 2019. The theme this year is ‘Purpose, Leadership and Progress: 40 years and beyond’ and celebrates both FECCA’s and the Multicultural Council of Tasmania’s, 40th years of progressing multiculturalism in Australia.

The National LGBTI Health Alliance Silver Rainbow Project and Val’s LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care, in association with The Coming Back Out Ball are convening the 4th National lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBT&I) Ageing and Aged Care Conference, in Melbourne, Australia – 24 & 25 October 2019.

This year’s Australia Association of Gerontology (AAG) Conference theme is “Coming of Age Together – New ways of acting and knowing”. It will focus on the importance of both enabling and appreciating the contributions that older people make to their families, communities and society. The Conference theme also acknowledges that opportunities for advancement are not evenly spread across the community and continues to bring to the forefront elements of our society: Older people who are poor, homeless, speak a language other than English, are LGBTI or from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander backgrounds are less likely to be able to advance in older age than those who have more advantages.

Awards

Ageing in A Foreign Land Award

Congratulations to Ljubica Petrov, Manager Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing, for receiving the inaugural Ageing in a Foreign Land Award at the 5th International Conference on Ageing in a Foreign Land held at Flinders University.
The Ageing in a Foreign Land Award aims to celebrate the achievements and contributions of people from a broad range of backgrounds who are recognised by their peers, colleagues and the community for their services to older culturally and linguistically diverse Australians.
The conference is hosted by LOGOS Centre at Flinders University and sponsored by Emeritus Professor Michael Tsianikas (pictured here with Ljubica).