Dementia in translation
Alzheimer’s Australia Victoria last week released a key online resource which has been translated into a total of 35 different languages.
Alzheimer’s Australia Victoria last week released a key online resource which has been translated into a total of 35 different languages.
To coincide with Dementia Awareness Week 2013, the organisation’s ‘Our Services’ brochure has now been expanded from the pre-existing five community translations. The resource includes details of the support, information and education services on offer throughout Victoria for people living with dementia, their families and carers.
“This initiative demonstrates Alzheimer’s Australia Vic’s commitment to working with different community groups to break down stigma, encourage people from all cultures to talk about dementia and to be aware of the services available,” Grace Roberto, Alzheimer’s Australia Vic’s multicultural officer, said.
The new resources were officially launched last week at ‘Connecting Communities’, an event held at Thomastown in collaboration with Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (Preston). The event included a presentation on brain health and was attended by numerous north west communities from European and Asian backgrounds.
There are an estimated 74,600 people living with dementia in Victoria. That figure is expected to almost double by 2030 to 141,000. It is estimated that about 30% of people living with dementia are from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.
The resource is now available in Arabic, Dari, Armenian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Khmer, Lithuanian, Lao, Latvian, Macedonian, Maltese, Polish, Punjabi, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
To find out more about this and other translated resources, call 1800 100 500 or to download the resources visit www.fightdementia.org.au/vic
