ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|106 pages
The Cultural Mapping Process in Dementia Services
chapter Chapter 1|14 pages
Introduction to Issues and Working Assumptions
chapter Chapter 2|16 pages
Culture and the Acculturation Continuum
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
Acquiring an Intercultural Knowledge Base
chapter Chapter 4|16 pages
Language: A Key Point of Cultural Contact
chapter Chapter 5|16 pages
Interaction Patterns, Roles, and Relationships
chapter Chapter 6|12 pages
Values, Beliefs, and Cultural Norms
chapter Chapter 7|12 pages
Sorting Factors Often Confused with Culture
part Two|30 pages
Integration of Cultural Mapping Concepts
chapter Chapter 8|12 pages
Special Professional and Provider Preparation
chapter Chapter 9|16 pages
Cultural Mapping Process: A Summary
part Three|76 pages
Supporting Intercultural Competency Development