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Careworkers in all care settings including residential aged care and home care settings often face challenges in supporting people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. In this blog, Elizabeth Lambert unpacks cultural challenges, barriers and burdens that careworkers face when providing end-of-life care, emphasising the need for improved support systems.

Anica Petkovski shares the Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra (MCCI) Weavers program. A peer-to-peer model that supports carers in navigating the emotional challenges of caring for a loved one with dementia. The program fosters a strong sense of community, reduces carer stress, and improves their wellbeing.  

Sara-Jane Roberts and Michelle DiGiacomo share their research on how the Laughter Care. This program by The Humour Foundation can benefit families by fostering moments of togetherness and providing new ways to communicate with their loved ones.

With higher rates of frailty and death in aged care there is a movement towards making death as discreet as possible.  In this blog, Rose Plater suggests the unintended consequences that this can bring and encourage compassionate design and open communication that ensure a good death is not accidental. 

Dr Annie Dullow shares her emotional yet rewarding journey of caring for her mother with dementia. She discusses the important role of carers and emphasises the need for better palliative care integration in aged care services and highlights areas for improvement to support carers.