Yuendumu old peoples program

• Reach:

  NT

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Current

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

The Mampu Maninja-kurlangu Jarlu Patu-ku Aboriginal Corporation runs the Yuendumu old peoples program. This program commenced in 2000, and provides comprehensive community-based aged care services for elderly Warlpiri people living in Yuendumu, a remote community in the Northern Territory. These services are provided by younger community members, and include:

• meals on wheels
• personal care
• laundry assistance
• social support
• health support
• hort term residential respite care at Ngurra Mampu Maninja-kurlangu.

Abstract adapted from Yuendumu old peoples program

Contacts

Wendy Brown
Mampu Maninja-kurlangu Jarlu Patu-ku Aboriginal Corporation
PMB Yuendumu
via Alice Springs NT 0872

Related publications

Smith K, Grundy JJ, Nelson HJ (2010)

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.

Rural and Remote Health; (10): 1422

Retrieved from http://www.rrh.org.au/publishedarticles/article_print_1422.pdf

• Links
• View abstract: 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
• View 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 (PDF - 684.0 KB)
• View website: Rural and Remote Health

Links

• View information: Yuendumu looks after its elderly at home