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Multicultural Aged Care Inc

Multicultural Aged Care. Is funded byAustralian Government Department of Health and Aging, Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care (PICAC) InitiativeDepartment of Families and Communities, OFTA, HACC, . MAC's Mission. Strengthen CALD communities' capacity to develop and support the aged and co

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Multicultural Aged Care Inc

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    1. Multicultural Aged Care (Inc) Presenter Maria Vlachoulis

    2. 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,

    3. MAC’s 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

    4. MAC’s 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

    5. 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.

    6. 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

    7. 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

    8. 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

    9. 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

    10. 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+

    11. 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

    12. 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

    13. 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

    14. 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, CD’s, DVD’s, audio visual equipment, music, video kits, and over 50 journals and newsletters.

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

    16. Multicultural Aged Care For more information please contact us at:

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