Caregiving Across Cultures: Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations / Edition 1

by Ramon Valle, Helen Cook Gait

Overview

Seeking to assist professionals and care providers looking to develop culturally-based techniques for the care of dementia-afflicted elders, this book first presents the need for culturally sensitive care, and then describes how this method of care may be utilized, developed, approved, and evaluated. The book includes numerous case studies, and highlights the authors' model.; Dealing with facets of intercultural practice, Part 1 of the text centres around the professional or provider already engaged or seeking to engage in day-to-day contact with ethnically diverse clientele. The emphasis is on highlighting those skills which serve the practitioner to establish intercultural rapport on their daily cross- ethnic assignments. The central tenet of this section is that the worker's attention has to be on maintaining both the dementia-affected elders' and the ethnic family members' cultural dignity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560325307
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Valle, Ramon; Cook Gait, Helen

Table of Contents

Part one The Cultural Mapping Process in Dementia Services; Chapter 1 Introduction to Issues and Working Assumptions; Chapter 2 Culture and the Acculturation Continuum; Chapter 3 Acquiring an Intercultural Knowledge Base; Chapter 4 Language: A Key Point of Cultural Contact; Chapter 5 Interaction Patterns, Roles, and Relationships; Chapter 6 Values, Beliefs, and Cultural Norms; Chapter 7 Sorting Factors Often Confused with Culture; Part two Integration of Cultural Mapping Concepts; Chapter 8 Special Professional and Provider Preparation; Chapter 9 Cultural Mapping Process: A Summary; Part three Supporting Intercultural Competency Development; Chapter 10 The Interculturally Capable Agency: The Ideal; Chapter 11 Locating and Working with Cultural Brokers; Chapter 12 Culturally Attuning the Dementia-Care Message; Chapter 13 Intercultural Outreach and Networking; Chapter 14 Highlighting Issues and Looking Ahead;

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Saundra L. Theis, RN, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing)
Description: This book applies cultural concepts to the care of persons with dementia and their families. It provides practical solutions to common problems using concrete examples from diverse cultures.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a working guide for acquiring skills to assess and intervene with culturally diverse families who have a family member with dementia.
Audience: The audience is broad and includes students and practitioners in the health professions, including medicine, nursing, social work, psychology, and public health. In addition, researchers in these fields would benefit from the book as they develop and assess interventions for this client population.
Features: An important feature is the case studies that illustrate concepts and techniques in the text. The case studies are taken from multiple cultural groups and are realistic. The detailed table of contents and index help the reader to locate specific topics quickly. Boxes are used effectively to highlight steps of specific procedures.
Assessment: This is an excellent book for students, practitioners, and researchers who deal with clients with dementia and their families in culturally diverse settings. In fact, the book is helpful beyond those with dementia. The information about cultural assessment and communication with culturally diverse families has broad application in the health sciences. The strength of the book is in the techniques for cultural assessment and intervention. Practitioners in these settings should own the book. In addition, it would be an excellent textbook for a variety of classes.

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