Social isolation and volunteering of older Chinese immigrants in Australia

这项共同设计和合作的研究解决了自COVID-19以来的一个严峻挑战：如何使遭受严重社会孤立的CALD移民更容易获得志愿服务活动。研究人员将与5个合作组织（PO）合作，以新州的中国移民（60岁以上）为例进行研究。它将分析人口普查和GSS数据集，在养老、服务导航和老年人学习方面进行深入访谈和焦点小组。这项研究将提供新的证据和测试同伴教育的效果，并支持服务和政策宣传的PO。这项研究将有利于CALD老年移民，提高服务能力，并有助于提高澳大利亚的社会凝聚力。

This co-designed and collaborative research addresses an acute challenge since COVID-19: how to make volunteering activities more accessible to CALD immigrants who suffer from serious social isolation. The researchers will work with 5 partner organisations (POs) to study Chinese immigrants (60+) in NSW as an example. It will analyse census and GSS datasets, conduct in-depth interviews and focus groups in the settings of old-age care, service navigation and elderly learning. This research will produce new evidence and test the effect of peer education, and support services and policy advocacy of the POs. This research will benefit CALD older immigrants, enhance service capacity and contribute to greater social cohesion in Australia.