Ageing Well In CALD communities
We value the older members of our diverse community.
Older people from multicultural communities bring valuable experience and knowledge to Australian society.
Our ‘Ageing Well in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities’ project helps:
- Combat ageism and stereotypes
- Improve attitudes towards older people and ageing
- Raise awareness about older people’s rights (and strengthen capacity to action upon them)
- Connect with services, supports and resources to live safely and independently
What We Offer
When you join our program, you will:
- Take part in activities about understanding your rights
- Connect with services that build community resilience
- Help create a more inclusive, innovative and accepting community for all ages
- Get regular updates about industry news and aged care services
- Join network meetings with other community organisations
- Help mainstream services understand the needs of multicultural communities
- Learn from our project’s history, originally known as ‘Knowing Your Rights’, beginning in 2017 – Knowing Your Rights: A Guide to the Rights of Older South Australians (.pdf, 497KB)
Community Participants
Our project has been hugely successful, supporting 21 organisations, speaking a range of languages:
- Arabic (Coptic)
- Arabic (Maronite)
- Bosnian
- Chinese (Cantonese)
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Croatian
- Filipino
- Fijian
- German
- Greek
- Indonesian
- Iranian
- Italian
- Korean
- Latvian
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Can We Help?
If you would like more information on how your community can benefit,
please contact Project Officer, Luis Cohen
‘Ageing Well in CALD Communities’ is a collaborative partnership between MCCSA and SA Health’s Office for Ageing Well.
We gratefully acknowledge SA Health and Office for Ageing Well for funding this project.