The Community of Practice (CoP) Palliative Care – CALD Perspectives
About Communities of Practice
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfil both individual and group goals. Communities of Practice often focus on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice. Interaction on a regular basis is an important part of this process.
Commitment to cultural diversity and inclusion
The vision of Multicultural Aged Care SA Inc. (MAC), Centre of Excellence in Cultural Diversity and Inclusion is that “older people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds will lead the lifestyle of their choice”. Accordingly, we have placed high strategic priority on advocating for cultural and linguistic appropriate pathways for, access to and participation in, the aged care system. Our aim is to provide quality, timely and responsive systemics to individual, person centred needs, supports, services and care. All of MAC’s information, training, resources, processes and advocacy are driven by this commitment.
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MAC is an incorporated non-government body funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (DHAC), Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care (PICAC) Programme and the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) to guide and support aged care providers, to equip them with the necessary information, resources and support to develop policies and practices that will ensure the services and environment they provide are culturally safe, inclusive and appropriate to the benefit of all stakeholders. Where relevant, MAC also considers the intersection between aged care and other systems such as disability and health. Information about MAC foundations, history and impact can be found on our website.
MAC is an incorporated non-government body funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (DHAC), Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care (PICAC) and the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) to guide, support and equip aged care providers, with the latest and updated necessary information, training and resources. MAC’s role incorporates support to develop policies and best practices models that will ensure the services environment they provide are culturally safe, equitable, inclusive and, appropriate for workforce and consumers.
Further information is accessible on the MAC website.
These Terms of Reference guide the Community of Practice Palliative Care – CALD Perspectives.
Purpose of the Community of Practice Palliative Care – CALD Perspectives
The Community of Practice Palliative Care – CALD Perspectives is a network of professionals across health, aged and community care sector led by Multicultural Aged Care, Centre of Excellence in Cultural Diversity and Inclusion. It aims to become a discussion forum utilising peer-to-peer learning, exchange of knowledge, best practice examples, coaching and mentoring, to support evidence-based quality culturally appropriate practice that is timely and responds to individual needs.
In response to an ongoing dialog with the aged care sector, MAC identified a need to offer this opportunity to raise awareness, increase competencies, support better understanding and translation of policy, regulations and requirements to continuously improve palliative care. We anticipate that sharing knowledge and learnings within CoP Palliative Care – CALD Perspectives will bring best outcomes for all; parties: maximising collaboration and satisfaction level, minimising duplication, optimising effective resources management and support culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
Objectives of the Community of Practice Palliative Care – CALD Perspectives
The objectives are to:
- Provide a discussion forum for people involved in palliative care across the health, aged and community care sector
- Cultivate peer-to-peer learning and mentoring on quality evidence-based best practice that embeds cultural diversity and inclusion, that is timely and responds to individual needs
- Educate palliative care providers on how to identify and explore culturally-informed needs and implement the appropriate practice that recognises and responds to individual needs
- Promote linkages and opportunities for collaborative initiatives in culturally appropriate palliative care
- Enhance inclusive practices across organisations and champion cultural diversity and inclusion across a palliative care continuum
- Drive innovation across a palliative care continuum
Membership and Structure
The CoP – CALD Perspectives welcome individuals, providers and organisations involved in palliative care interested in achieving best outcomes through continuous improvement grounded on the foundation of cultural diversity and inclusion.Members are encouraged to attend regularly and actively contribute their input and feedback to ensure optimal learning outcomes for all.
Members are required to engage constructively and respectfully with their peers. Where relevant, members are expected to share their professional expertise through their comments and share relevant cultural diversity and inclusion resources that are useful to all members. Members are encouraged to promote learnings within their organisations and through professional networks.
Rules of engagement and governance structure will be included as an agenda item for the first meeting with interested members.
