More than 80 researchers, policymakers and industry practitioners participated in the Policy Dialogue on Migration and Ageing in a Multicultural Australia at the Australian National University (ANU) on 20 May 2024.
The Policy Dialogue, co-hosted by CEPAR and the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy in Canberra, provides a forum for academics, policymakers and industry representatives to engage in a multilayered discussion and offer perspectives around a particular population ageing topic of national interest.
This year, the Policy Dialogue program focused on migration and ageing in a multicultural Australia.
CEPAR Director Scientia Professor John Piggott and ANU Crawford School of Public Policy Director Professor Janine O’Flynn opened the Policy Dialogue, which was followed by presentations from CEPAR Senior Research Fellow Rafal Chomik, CEPAR Chief Investigator Professor Peter McDonald and CEPAR Professor Jeromey Temple on how migration is set to change older age groups in Australia.
The second session focused on health-care engagement and health outcomes of ageing migrants and culturally and linguistically diverse communities, with presentations and perspectives from Professor Reema Harrison (Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Macquarie University) and Associate Professor Fiona Stanaway (The University of Sydney, CEPAR), Emeritus Professor Julie Byles (University of Newcastle, CEPAR) and Professor Bianca Brijnath (National Ageing Research Institute).
The third session featured recent research on caregiving, cultural and lingusitic diversity navigation of aged care and the care economy, with presentations by Professor Myra Hamilton (The University of Sydney) and Professor Lee-Fay Low (The University of Sydney). Michael Lye from the Department of Health and Aged Care and Mary Ann Baquero Geronimo from the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils’ Australia (FECCA) provided additional perspectives.
The Policy Dialogue concluded with a panel discussion focused on the challenges and responses for policy and practice implementation. Chaired by CEPAR Chief Investigator Warwick McKibbin, the panel comprised CEPAR Chief Investigator Professor Marian Baird from the University of Sydney, CEPAR Senior Research Fellow Dr Bei Lu from UNSW Sydney, and Ian Yates, Acting Inspector-General of Aged Care in the Australian Government.
The Dialogue was timed to coincide with the release of CEPAR’s latest research brief – titled Migration and ageing: How cultural and linguistic diversity is set to boom among older Australians – which features and synthesizes research outcomes from more than a dozen CEPAR researchers.
An electronic copy of the research brief is available online and hard copies are available on request.
Video recordings of the Policy Dialogue can be viewed below or at the Policy Dialogue event page.
Video recordings
SESSION 1: How Migration is Set to Change Older Age Groups
Chair: Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, CEPAR
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SESSION 2: Health of Ageing Migrants and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities
Chair: Fatima Jamal Khan, Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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SESSION 3: Migrants, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities and Caregiving
Chair: Marian Baird, CEPAR Chief Investigator, The University of Sydney
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PANEL SESSION: Policy, Practice and Research – Challenges and Responses for Implementation
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