The Ageing Experience of Australians from Migrant Backgrounds
One in five Australians aged 50 and over were born in non-English-speaking countries, numbering more than 1 million people.The Ageing Experience of Australians from Migrant Backgrounds digs deeper into the 2006 Census – the first to collect a range of data that can be used to examine productive ageing and wellbeing of older Australians – to provide a detailed picture of this large and significant group.
The results highlighted in this report are sometimes surprising and certainly deserve wider recognition.
It shows that older Australians from migrant backgrounds differ in their social and economic well-being according to country of origin and ancestry suggesting that cultural factors and migration experiences influence their ageing experiences.
This report is about quantifying these different ageing experiences.
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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.
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37%
37% of people aged 65 years and over in Australia were born overseas.
400
There are over 400 separately identified languages spoken in Australian homes.
120
Australians follow more than 120 religious and spiritual beliefs.
28% & 20%
28% percent of people using home care and 20% percent of people using permanent residential care are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
36%
36% of care attendants in residential aged care are identified as being from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
250
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.