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Have your say to improve the Australian Aged Care system for CALD seniors

2022-2023 Diversity Webinar Series

Cultural Diversity in Ageing Interactive Webinar Series 2023-24

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FECCA is looking for stories!

Are you an older person from a CALD background that has a story to tell about what it is like to be growing older in Australia, your experiences with the aged care system or your life as an immigrant?

Are you a carer or family member of an older person from a CALD background, or a service provider working with them?

If so, FECCA would like to hear your story. 

The stories may be published in the Spring 2013 edition of FECCA’s Australian Mosaic magazine, which will focus on the theme of CALD aged care, in the National CALD Ageing Network (NCAN) news bulletin NCAN News and on the FECCA website. They may also be used to inform and personalise FECCA’s submissions to government inquiries and other consultations about ageing and aged care issues. Stories can be published anonymously at the owner’s request.

FECCA invites CALD seniors, their families and carers to write down, or share through an interview, their stories about their experiences as a person from a CALD background growing older in Australia. We are particularly keen to hear from carers or family members of CALD seniors living with dementia.

If you are interested, please contact Melanie Tulloch (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Bruce Shaw (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by email or at the FECCA office on 02 6282 5755.

You can find more information, including a consent form, on the FECCA website at http://www.fecca.org.au/we-want-to-hear-your-stories.  


 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%
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% & 20%
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%
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.