Most people who spend a life in a second language return to their first one. A letter to my future self about the room I hope to be sitting in — and who decides whether anyone in it will understand me.
Getting older is difficult enough without doing it in a second language. Being of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background, for many seniors in Western Australia, ageing in a new country might involve accessing aged care services in a language other than their mother tongue, not having access to food from home and gradually losing contact with people in their home language or culture. AfCAS, the Association for Culturally Appropriate Services, is here to fill t
