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

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.