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South Australia's ageing population and its increasingly multicultural nature
Author(s)Graeme Hugo
Journal titleAustralasian Journal on Ageing, vol 19, no 1, February 2000
Pagespp 23-32
KeywordsEthnic groups ; Immigrants ; Demography ; Needs [elderly] ; Australia.
AnnotationRecent changes in the growth and distribution of the ethnic aged population in South Australia are analysed in this paper, drawing on data from the 1996 Australian Census of Population and Housing. Whereas in 1971, 19.7% of the state's population aged 65 years and over were born overseas, this applied to 34% in 1996. The proportion who were born in non-English-speaking countries has increased from 5.1% to 22.1%. Each of the major birthplace groups among minority ethnic older people has a distinctive spatial distribution. The paper concludes that this presents a major challenge to policy makers and service providers since the overseas-born groups have some characteristics which means that their needs for services are somewhat different to those of the Anglo-Celtic majority. (AKM).
Accession NumberCPA-000509411 A
ClassmarkTK: TJ: S8: IK: 7YA

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