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Senior's Week 'Celebration Day' 2015

Seniors festival 2015The Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing is excited to announce that we will once again be participating in The Victorian Senior’s Festival opening ‘Celebration Day’ on Sunday 4 October 2015.

Celebration Day is a free community event and will run from 10.30am- 4.00pm. Visitors will be able to enjoy some great entertainment, food and fun.

The Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing will be distributing aged care information in languages other than English, and will be joined by Chinese Community Social Services, Italian Services Institute, Benetas and more.

Senior’s festival is organised by the Victorian Department of Health & Human Services to encourage seniors to participate in and enjoy a wide range of more than 1,300 activities, generally free or low-cost.

Set to the theme of ‘Celebrating Communities’, this year's festival promises to be one of the most exciting and action packed yet. It features a fantastic array of social, cultural, body and soul activities that older Victorians enjoy or are keen to try for the first time.

The Victorian Seniors Festival program is now available from all Coles supermarkets, local councils or neighbourhood houses, and online at seniorsonline.vic.gov.au.

 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% 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.