Community Based Aged Care in a Remote Australian Indigenous Setting

An article "Culture at the centre of community based aged care in a remote Australian Indigenous setting: a case study of the development of Yuendumu Old People's Programme" was published in Rural and Remote Health on 26th October 2010. The Warlpiri Aboriginal community in Central Australia wanted to bring their old people home from distant nursing homes. The subsequent development of the Yuendumu Old Peoples Programme and its Family Model of Care shows how this was achieved - and so much more. When government and community worked together respectfully, the power of the traditional system of care based on Law, kinship and 'country' transformed the everyday setting of community based Indigenous aged care - and the final years of many older people. (NRHA e-forum 15 November)