NSW Multicultural Communication Aid for Aged Day Care Services
The SWAHS (Sydney West Area Health Service) Multicultural Health Network in NSW has developed a tool to assist both the staff of aged day care centres/centre based respite services and their clients in communicating simple everyday messages.
The tool contains pictograms as well as words and phrases in English and in 30 other languages including: Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Farsi/Persian, Filipino/Tagalog, French, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Maltese, Polish, Punjabi, Pushto, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
The tool is not designed to replace the service of a professional interpreter.
![Dandenong Mayor [left] stands next to aged care resident and aged care staff member](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/wp/belv__2204.jpg?fm=pjpg&w=370)
![Dandenong Mayor [left] stands next to aged care resident and aged care staff member](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/wp/belv__2204.jpg?fm=pjpg&w=520&format=auto&q=65)
