Caregiving Across Cultures

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. 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;