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​PROMOTING WELL-BEING OF MIGRANT SENIORS

A VISIT AT A TIME

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Professor Loretta Baldassar

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Professor Loretta Baldassar

Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University (ECU)

Professor Loretta Baldassar is Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University (ECU) and one of Australia’s leading Social Scientists. An Internationally recognised leader in migration and diversity studies, Professor Baldassar leads the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab and the TRACS Migration Research Network at the School of Arts and Humanities at ECU. Professor Baldassar’s research focuses on social care and ageing across the life course, family and community relations, culture and linguistic diversity, transnational migration and mobility, and the role of new technologies in supporting wellbeing. 

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Title: “Befriending with Genie: An intervention to reduce loneliness, and increase social support and service access for people living with dementia and caregivers from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) communities”

 

Presentation:

Strong social networks and connections are essential to support older people to maintain their health and quality of life as they age, live independently for longer and access services when they need to. However, people with dementia and their caregivers from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) communities have unequal knowledge about, access to, and uptake of prevention activities that support their social connections. As a result, they are at increased risk of significant social isolation and increased risk of morbidity and mortality.

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Funded by the Medical Research Future Fund – Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Mission and led by Professor Loretta Baldassar, the BEFRIENDING with GENIE project addresses inequalities in the knowledge about and uptake of prevention activities, and access to services to support improved outcomes for older people in the community who are living with dementia and their caregivers from four language groups: Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese and South Asian. This project combines two evidence-based interventions: ‘BEFRIENDING’ which consists of informal conversations with a trained facilitator, and ‘GENIE’, which is an online database of support services and activities tailored to participants’ interests and needs and a network mapping tool to measures their social supports over time. The BEFRIENDING with GENIE intervention will be delivered to 100 participants and caregivers. We hypothesise that this project will improve the lives of the participants through a decrease in loneliness and increase in social connections of participants, as well as increasing their knowledge about, and access to, available services.

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