Multicultural Aged Care Inc

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Multicultural Aged Care (Inc)

• Presenter
• Maria Vlachoulis

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Multicultural Aged Care

• Is funded by
• Australian Government Department of Health and
  Aging, Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care
  (PICAC) Initiative
• Department of Families and Communities, OFTA,
  HACC,

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MACs Mission

• Strengthen CALD communities capacity to develop
  and support the aged and community care needs of
  their older people.
• Support and assist service providers to give
  older people from culturally and linguistically
  diverse backgrounds the services of their choice.
• Advise governments, peak bodies and mainstream
  organisations on the aged and community care
  needs of older people in CALD communities

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MACs Core Business

• Developing community capacity
• Promoting partnerships
• Developing agency and worker networks
• Facilitating communication and information
  exchange between government and CALD communities
• Providing learning and training opportunities

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Assistance to Service Providers

• Understand the issues affecting older people from
  culturally and linguistically diverse
  backgrounds,
• Acquire the knowledge, understanding, skills and
  competencies to deliver culturally inclusive
  services.
• Develop resources on culturally appropriate aged
  care
• Provide culturally appropriate aged care services
  to older people from diverse cultural and
  linguistic backgrounds.

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Assistance to Communities

• Access and Equity Information for aged and
  community care.
• CALD Communities Development, Promotion,
  Participation
• Resource Development for aged care services
• CALD Networks
• HACC National Standards Accreditation Training,
  Templates
• ACAR Funding Rounds Letters of Support

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MAC Networks

• Residential Aged Care Facilities
• Councils
• CALD Communities, Workers, Managers
• HACC Funded CALD services, programs, agencies,
  communities
• Commonwealth Funded Community Aged Care Services
• CPP Community Partners Program
• PICAC Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care

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MAC Priority Training

• Cultural Awareness Training (eg TAFE, RACFs,
  Hospitals)
• HACC National Standards Accreditation Training
  and Support
• OHSW Training eg Food and Hygiene, Manual
  Handling
• Service Provision Training eg Working effectively
  with Interpreters
• Other training requested and identified by
  communities

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MAC Priority Resources

• Resource Directory 3rd Edition
• Working Cross Culturally A guide current review
• Cultural Awareness Fact Sheets
• Customised Training Resources
• SA Statistics
• Community Aged Care Information Tool Kits (20
  Languages)
• Colours of Culture MAC Newsletter

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Older CALD population in SA

• 2006
• 49,000 people aged 65 born in NES country
• (21 of total 65 population)
• 1 in 4 of older CALD population aged 80
• 2016
• 58,000 people aged 65 born in NES country
• (20 of total 65 population)
• 1 in 3 older CALD population aged 80

Source Projections of older immigrants people
from CALDB, 1996-2026 Report (Australian
Institute of Health Welfare 2001)
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CALD PERSONS AGED 65 BY BIRTHPLACE IN SA 2006

• Australia 131,811
• Italy 12,441
• Greece 5,489
• Germany 4,686
• Netherlands 2,781
• Poland 2,293
• Croatia 1,213

Source Projections of older immigrants people
from CALDB, 1996-2026 Report (Australian
Institute of Health Welfare 2001)
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LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH SPOKEN BY CALD
PERSONS AGED 65 IN SA 1996

• LANGUAGE NUMBER PERCENT
• Italian 9,296 4.5
• German 4,282 2.1
• Greek 3,362 1.6
• Polish 3,306 1.6
• Dutch 2,585 1.3
• Ukrainian 1,228 0.6

Source Projections of older immigrants people
from CALDB, 1996-2026 Report (Australian
Institute of Health Welfare 2001)
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LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH SPOKEN BY CALD
PERSONS AGED 65 IN SA 2011

• LANGUAGE NUMBER PERCENT
• Italian 13,988 5.5
• Greek 7,214 2.8
• German 5,605 2.2
• Dutch 3,689 1.5
• Polish 2,128 0.8
• Yugoslavian 1,632 0.6
• Croatian 1,360 0.5
• Vietnamese 1,185 0.5

Source Projections of older immigrants people
from CALDB, 1996-2026 Report (Australian
Institute of Health Welfare 2001)
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Library

• The MAC Library has a comprehensive collection of
  resources focussing on issues for aging and
  cultural diversity (cultural briefings, elder
  abuse, mental health), aged residential and
  community care, volunteers, translations, LOTE,
  general health and wellbeing, diversional therapy
  activities and leisure.
• Materials that are available for loan include,
  books, videos, training materials, CDs, DVDs,
  audio visual equipment, music, video kits, and
  over 50 journals and newsletters.

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MAC Website

• Electronic access to resources eg Working X
  Culturally
• Organisational Information, Annual Reports,
• Library Catalogue
• Links to other organisations
• www.mac.org.au

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Multicultural Aged Care

• For more information please contact us at

77 Gibson Street Bowden SA 5007 Phone 08 8241
9900 Fax [phone] Email macsa_at_mac.org.au