Yuendumu looks after its elderly at home [online video] (2010)

Description

This video showcases the work carried out by local community members as part of the Yuendumu old peoples program, which runs in Yuendumu, a remote community in the Northern Territory. This program provides comprehensive community-based aged care services for elderly Warlpiri, and is run by the Mampu Maninja-kurlangu Jarlu Patu-ku Aboriginal Corporation. The video was produced by local Aboriginal media organisation Pintubi, Anmatjerre, Warlpiri (PAW) Media as part of a series of videos made in communities that were identified under the Council of Australian Governments' (COAG) National partnership agreement on remote service delivery.

Abstract adapted from Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Contact details

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

Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
Tuggeranong Office Park
Soward Way (cnr Athllon Drive)
Greenway ACT 2900
PO Box 7576
Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610
Ph: 1300 653 227
Email: fahcsiafeedback@fahcsia.gov.au

Links

• View resource: Yuendumu looks after its elderly at home [online video, 8:08]
• View website: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

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