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📅 23 June 2026
🕐 10:00 am – 1:00 pm AEST
📍 Online (National Symposium)

Overview

This national symposium explores grief management through a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) lens, bringing together aged care professionals, community leaders, researchers and people with lived experience to improve how grief and bereavement support is delivered across diverse communities.

The symposium focuses on culturally safe, trauma-informed and person-centred approaches to grief care, recognising that experiences and expressions of grief differ across cultures, faiths and communities. Participants will gain practical strategies to support older people and families experiencing loss while promoting equity, inclusion and compassionate care.

What's Covered

• Cultural safety in grief and bereavement support
• Trauma and grief-informed care practices
• Understanding diverse cultural, spiritual and religious approaches to grief
• Equity, access and inclusion in grief services
• Person-centred and culturally responsive care
• Family and community perspectives on loss and bereavement
• Practical tools and strategies for supporting grieving individuals
• Networking and collaboration across the aged care and community sectors
• Building workforce confidence and capability in grief management

Who Should Attend

Aged care workers, community care staff, support coordinators, allied health professionals, nurses, managers, volunteers, multicultural service providers, policy professionals, and anyone supporting older people and families experiencing grief and bereavement.

Cost

There is no fee to attend

Presented by

Multicultural Aged Care (MAC)

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