ABSTRACT
This chapter presents how diversity-sensitive care is characterized, using the example of dementia care for migrants, and also presents what implications dementia can have for migrants and their relatives. It also presents health professionals to understand the situation of migrants with dementia and their family caregivers. The chapter provides practical tools that can be used in primary health and nursing care by professionals to implement diversity-sensitive care. Professional nursing care staff, irrespective of whether they are working in hospitals, in inpatient nursing care services, or ambulatory care, should be aware that the relatives of the patient may perceive dementia disease or other serious conditions as threatening and shameful. Dementia is often not understood as a medical condition and symptoms may be (mis-)interpreted as usual characteristics of getting older. Professional nursing care persons should reflect their own adherence to cultures to work with a diversity-sensitive and open-minded attitude.
