Aged Care Professional Development Seminars: January-June 2010
We are pleased to announce our Professional Development Seminars for the first half of 2010. All sessions will consist of presentations by industry leaders and practical workshops and will be held at The University of Melbourne- Hawthorn Campus.
Seminar topics include Language Services in Aged Care, Family Carers from CALD backgrounds, Policy for Culturally Inclusive Service Delivery and Culturally Appropriate Meals in Aged Care.
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International Federation on Ageing 10th Global Conference: 3-6 May 2010
Climate for Change: Ageing into the Future
The International Federation on Ageing 10th Global Conference on Ageing will be hosted by Council on the Ageing, Victoria (COTA, VIC). The conference will take place at the Melbourne Convention Centre in Australia 3-6 May 2010.
The 10th Global Conference on Ageing will provide a reliable platform for a global information exchange and point of connection for all, working to generate positive social change for older people. The five themes that form the program framework - Climate Change; Social Inclusion; Human Rights; Resourcing Change; and Healthy Ageing - are expected to stimulate new conversations as well as explore in more depth more traditional subject areas.
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Migrant Families in Aged Care: An Intergenerational Perspective Seminar
Aged care workers constantly negotiate all sorts of arrangements with families. Often workers are dealing with a number of generations within the one family. Different generations have different views on the well-being of their elderly.
Cultural values impact directly on how perceptions can vary between family members. At this seminar we reviewed strategies to facilitate decision making and negotiation process in the aged care setting taking into consideration cultural and generational points of view and provide with best strategies in handling complaints from families from intergenerational point of view.
Available speaker presentations from this Seminar:
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2009 Cultural Diversity in Ageing Victorian State Conference
The State Conference and Expo conducted by the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing on Monday 4th May at Hemisphere Conference Centre, Moorabbin proved an outstanding success with 217 conference participants from 3 states and the ACT, 25 presentations, 28 Expo exhibitors, much positive evaluation feedback and a range of encouraging state and national media coverage including Radio National and SBS.
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New Resource 'Options in Aged Care' Launched in July 2008
A resource for health and aged care service providers and community workers to inform their clients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds about available aged care services, Options in Aged Care provides an overview of all government-subsidised aged care services in 20 languages.
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New Translations Added to Multilingual Resources in August 2008
New translations are being added to the Multilingual Resident Handbook and Glossary of Aged Care Terminology in August 2008.
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Community Consultations Report Published in August 2008
A report on the community consultations conducted by the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing has been published in the August-September 2008 edition of INsite magazine.
Click here to read this and other articles by the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing.