Bookedited by Maria D. Llorente.
Summary: "Health care organizations are beginning to recognize the importance of cultural competence as it relates to efficiency, quality, and equity in the delivery of care within a competitive health care market, and Culture, Heritage, and Diversity in Older Adult Mental Health Care is designed to train mental health clinicians to deliver culturally sensitive care to an increasingly diverse patient population. Projections indicate that 35% of patients older than age 65 will be from a racial or ethnic minority group by 2050, compared with 11% in 1970. Today's mental health practitioners require knowledge, sensitivity, and an understanding of institutionalized practices and systems that undermine their patients' health and well-being. The term culture is multifaceted and may refer to one's belief system, values, religion, race, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, geographic location, educational level, age, occupational risks and exposures, and gender. The authors of the book examine mental health care through these lenses, teaching the reader about implicit biases and potential miscommunication and offering strategies for overcoming these difficulties"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Why is cultural competency important when working with older adults? / Amy Gajaria, Ebony Dix, Ken Sakauye, Maria D. Llorente
Cultural competence in geriatric psychiatry : teaching and evaluative methods / Ken Sakauye, Shuo Sally He, Ebony Dix, Raissa Tanqueco, Iqbal Ahmed
Migration, acculturation, and mental health / Carl I. Cohen, Pachida Lo, Carine Nzodom, Samra Sahlu
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders / Madeline Nykamp, Shiv Lamba, Nhi-Ha Trinh, Jai C. Gandhi, Lan Chi Vo, Iqbal Ahmed
Culturally competent care for geriatric Indigenous peoples : American Indians, Alaska Natives, First Nations, and Native Hawaiians / Mary Hasbah Roessel, Linda Nahulu, Mira Zein
African American older adults / Rita Hargrave
Cultural competency and Latino elders / Vicenzio Holder-Perkins
Older lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults / R. Dakota Carter, Siddarth Puri, Rebecca Radue, Daniel D. Sewell
Rural elderly / Rebecca Radue, Susan K. Schultz
The seventh age : centenarians / Raya Elfadel Kheirbek, Yasmin Banaei
Cultural competency and veterans / Marilyn Horvath, Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, Maria D. Llorente.