Australia's growing older population is more culturally and linguistically diverse than ever. This shift has required aged-care and palliative care facilities to cater their work towards a variety of cultural attitudes and provide information for loved ones in a plethora of languages.
Key Points
- According to the 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census, 37 per cent of older Australians were born overseas, or 1.2 million people, and one in six older Australians speak a language other than English at home.
- With the changing demographic has come a need to adapt Australia's aged-care and palliative care services.
- Palliative Care Victoria’s new project, the Dignified and Respectful Decisions program is offering language-specific resources to ensure that family members and substitute decision-makers can access information and support to assist them as carers.
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