Resources
Multicultural Calendar 2024
Introducing the Multicultural Calendar, your essential tool for embracing diversity and inclusion year-round! This comprehensive calendar is a vibrant tapestry of dates, celebrating various Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) events throughout the year. It’s designed for anyone working with CALD and multicultural communities, as well as anyone interested in broadening their cultural horizons.
Buy Now Download Calendar OnlineThe Cultural Iceberg and Diversity Framework
What is the Cultural Iceberg? The Cultural Iceberg serves as a metaphor, revealing that what we often see in a culture is just the tip of a much larger and complex structure. However, beneath the surface lies the deep culture, a vast realm shaping the nuances of human interaction.
Learn more by watching our comprehensive video resource on these topics:
MAC Directory
A directory for culturally and linguistically diverse consumers.
Contents Include:
- Finding the Services I need
- My Aged Care Consumer Journey
- The Aged Care System in Australia
- Translating and Interpreting Services
- Community Visitor Scheme
- Commonwealth Home Support Program
- Home Care Packages
- Residential Care
Summer Activity Pack: Greek
MAC supported the St Basil’s Plateia program (a Greek specific social support program) in producing this bi-lingual Greek specific activity pack for the clients of Plateia. To access this resource please click on this link.
A Guide to Best Practice Care
Supporting diversity within aged and community care
In care settings where consumers and workforce are increasingly diverse, there is need for a toolbox of strategies on how to deliver best practice care services. A guide to best practice care: supporting diversity within aged and community care is a resource designed to assist service providers to deliver best practice programs with targeted and inclusive information and services.
Accessing Aged and Community Care Services in SA
A directory for culturally and linguistically diverse consumers
The need for information and assistance can arise at any time in your life and trying to find your way through the system of information can be very difficult.
This booklet has been developed to assist older CALD persons and their families to find the community agencies that provide services to those aged 65 years and over in their communities, to better enable them to live a healthy and fulfilling life.
Factsheets
Multicultural Aged Care produces a range of factsheets on many areas of interest in the CALD aged and community care sector. See below for a selection of the latest factsheets. Can’t find the topic you are looking for? Contact us to see if we have something available.
Bibliographies
A curated selection of topical lists from the MAC Library collection, these bibliographies list resources available for loan from the MAC Library.
Statistics
All statistics were sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
65+ Country of Birth, by LGA
65+ LGA, by Country of Birth
A End of Year Message from the MAC Team
With Christmas, New Years and other significant cultural celebrations around the corner, our team at Multicultural Aged Care would like to wish you and your family a happy holiday season.
Please enjoy the video and take care during this time of celebration!
The MAC Magazine – Holiday Issue, December 2023
Wishing you all a happy holiday season.
As we bid farewell to another transformative year at Multicultural Aged Care, we reflect on the rich tapestry of cultures that define our community. From the MAC team we hope that you thoroughly enjoy this edition of our MAC Magazine.
View Full PDF HereChristmas Cards in Different Languages
Providing culturally appropriate care at Christmas is as easy as having Christmas cards in the languages of your clients. Here are a few examples of Christmas cards developed for MAC clients in English, Greek, Hindi, Polish, Serbian, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese and Nepali. These are available without the MAC logo for you to use.
If you have any suggestions regarding grammatical, spelling or other feedback please let us know as we are always striving to deliver the highest quality translated resources as possible.
We are currently working on adding more languages including Italian, Maltese, and Tagalog.