A Cultural Pool for Aged Care
In September 2006 ACSA released a national policy position “Strength through Diversity – Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Aged and Community Care.” The policy suggested that a cultural pool should be established to enhance and promote good quality care for older people from CALD backgrounds. This paper explores further the rationale for a pool and how it could operate. In preparing this paper it became clear that there is little data on how much is required to provide adequate support or culturally appropriate care, and the nature of the areas that require additional funding. Therefore a research and evaluation project must be an integral part of the design of the pool.
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