Book contents
- Reichel’s Care of the Elderly
- Reichel’s Care of the Elderly
- Copyright page
- In Memoriam
- Contents
- Contributors
- Section I General Approach to the Care of the Elderly
- Section II Geriatric Syndromes
- Section III Care of the Elderly by Organ System
- Section IV Principles of Care for the Elderly
- Chapter 46 Surgical Principles
- Chapter 47 Rehabilitation
- Chapter 48 Geriatric Sexuality
- Chapter 49 Aging in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
- Chapter 50 Home- and Community-Based Long-Term Care
- Chapter 51 Institutional Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
- Chapter 52 Hospital-Based Care
- Chapter 53 Introduction to Palliative Care
- Chapter 54 The Mistreatment of Older Adults
- Chapter 55 Driving and the Older Adult
- Chapter 56 Integrative Medicine
- Chapter 57 Retirement
- Chapter 58 Cultural Competence
- Chapter 59 Health Literacy
- Chapter 60 Caregiving
- Chapter 61 Practice Transformation for Better Care of Older Adults
- Chapter 62 Health-Care Organization and Financing
- Chapter 63 Ethical Decision-Making
- Chapter 64 Epidemic and Pandemic Impacts on the Elderly Population
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Chapter 58 - Cultural Competence
from Section IV - Principles of Care for the Elderly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2022
- Reichel’s Care of the Elderly
- Reichel’s Care of the Elderly
- Copyright page
- In Memoriam
- Contents
- Contributors
- Section I General Approach to the Care of the Elderly
- Section II Geriatric Syndromes
- Section III Care of the Elderly by Organ System
- Section IV Principles of Care for the Elderly
- Chapter 46 Surgical Principles
- Chapter 47 Rehabilitation
- Chapter 48 Geriatric Sexuality
- Chapter 49 Aging in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
- Chapter 50 Home- and Community-Based Long-Term Care
- Chapter 51 Institutional Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
- Chapter 52 Hospital-Based Care
- Chapter 53 Introduction to Palliative Care
- Chapter 54 The Mistreatment of Older Adults
- Chapter 55 Driving and the Older Adult
- Chapter 56 Integrative Medicine
- Chapter 57 Retirement
- Chapter 58 Cultural Competence
- Chapter 59 Health Literacy
- Chapter 60 Caregiving
- Chapter 61 Practice Transformation for Better Care of Older Adults
- Chapter 62 Health-Care Organization and Financing
- Chapter 63 Ethical Decision-Making
- Chapter 64 Epidemic and Pandemic Impacts on the Elderly Population
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
The rapidly growing proportion of older Americans who are from very diverse ethnic and racial minorities will produce an ethnogeriatric imperative for geriatricians and other health-care providers. Many older adults from minority backgrounds experience disparities in the quality of their health care and disparities in their health status by their higher risk for diseases such as diabetes, heart failure, and dementia.
To provide effective ethnogeriatric care for this culturally diverse older patient population, health-care organizations need to become culturally competent by applying the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care, including providing trained interpreters for providers to use in care with limited English proficient older adults. The geriatric providers themselves need to become culturally competent in their: (1) attitudes such as developing cultural humility and reducing their bias; (2) knowledge of cultural values and health risks of their older patients; and (3) skills in showing culturally appropriate respect, eliciting patients’ explanatory models of their illness, and working appropriately with interpreters.
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- Reichel's Care of the ElderlyClinical Aspects of Aging, pp. 705 - 715Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022