Cultural Diversity and Safety

Learning Activity Description: 

As a health care worker providing care or services to older people living in residential or home care you are required to practice in accordance with the requirements of the Aged Care Quality Standards. This learning resource will also have relevance in all of other health care settings providing care or services to older people. Aged Care Learning Solutions educational material is endorsed by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation.

Learning Outcomes: 

• State general information about CALD older people
• Describe people’s rights to their beliefs and culture, religion ,traditions and language 
• Understand people have individual needs regardless of their CALD background 
• Apply strategies to improve communication when working with CALD people
• List the principle of cultural safety
• Know how to practice cultural safety
• Explain what diversity means in relation to people’s choices, health and every day needs
• Better understand the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and it’s continuing impact on older Indigenous peoples
• Know how to practice cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander older peoples