Multicultural Competency in Wellness

Wellness Wheel The Mission of the National Wellness Institute (NWI) Multicultural Competency Committee is to support NWI with increasing inclusiveness by advancing multicultural competency within wellness best practices, and to assist with the development of knowledge, awareness, and skills Read more

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My Aged Care Assessment Manual

The My Aged Care Assessment Manual (the Manual) is designed to drive good practices in the assessment of older people’s support needs and eligibility for Commonwealth subsidised aged care services under the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) and/or types Read more

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My Aged Care: Support for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds

If you’re an older person from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background, or you’re caring for an older person from a CALD background, there are aged care services specifically for you.

Many organisations now offer specific diets, activities, Read more

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Aged Care Quality Standards: spirituality is more than religion

Produced by Meaningful Ageing Australia, this three minute video introduces spirituality in the Australian Aged Care Quality Standards, and the idea that spirituality is not confined to religion.

Useful for staff in all roles.

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Ageing Strategy 2016-2021 LGA – SA

Age Friendly Communities and Environment Framework. The World Health Organisation has developed a checklist of the essential features of age friendly cities that make a community more liveable and manageable for older people, touching on – outdoor spaces and Read more

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Can We Increase Psychological Well-being? The Effects of Interventions on Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis of Controlled Trials

There is a rapidly growing interest in psychological well-being (PWB) as outcome of interventions. Ryff developed theory-based indicators of PWB that are consistent with a eudaimonic perspective of happiness. Numerous interventions have been developed with the aim to increase Read more

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Dealing with Diversity: Aged Care services for new and emerging communities

The purpose of this research was to identify the impacts of diversity on the ability of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people to access government services such as aged care, particularly when these services require a high level of Read more

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Decade of healthy ageing: baseline report

The Baseline Report for the Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021-2030 addresses five issues: 1. Introduces Healthy Ageing, the Decade’s actions and enablers, and a pathway to accelerate impact by 2030. 2. Where are we in 2020? The report provides Read more

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Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) – Fact sheet 2 – Australian approaches to reablement in the home support and care program

This Fact Sheet has been developed by the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) with the support of the Expert Reference Group for the AAG Reablement Project 2017-19 (1).

The aim is to provide a summary of current reablement approaches Read more

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Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) – Fact sheet 4 – list of published evidence on reablement approaches

This Fact Sheet has been developed by the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) with the support of the Expert Reference Group for the AAG Reablement Project 2017-19 1.

The aim is to provide a list and brief summaries of Read more

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