It’s long been accepted within many migrant communities that families look after their ageing loved ones, but now a rise in culturally specific aged care is providing diverse communities with the support they need.
A move to relationship-based care is transforming aged care homes across the country, blurring the lines between residents and workers, strengthening personal connections, and creating true community.
A Queensland-based provider is delivering culturally attuned aged care, in crocodile country, where services have repeatedly failed to take hold for first nation communities.
As a silent epidemic of homelessness among our older population sweeps across Australia, Melbourne’s Brotherhood of St Laurence is pitching in to make a difference.
A West Australian aged and community care organisation has gained national recognition in the You are ACE! campaign for giving a stronger voice to the people they serve through its Consumer Committee.
Ageing Australia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, sea, waters and community.
We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, and to Elders past and present.