Ramon Valle

CAREGIVING ACROSS CULTURES
Working with Dementing Illness and Ethnically Diverse Populations
Ramon Valle

Caregiving Across Cultures is a practical guide for professionals and care providers who are developing culturally-based techniques for the care of dementia-afflicted elders. This timely text offers a knowledgeable cross-cultural hand-on approach to the care of dementia-affected individuals and families.
Most of the information currently available in this field is geared toward mainstream, English-speaking populations, whereas Caregiving Across Cultures offers a viable theoretical framework to help practitioners design ethnically relevant programs in diverse communities. In addition, the book details a variety of practical approaches to cross-cultural assessment, staff training, community outreach, and the development of linguistically-viable dementia care information materials. This book will be useful for both the monocultural, English-speaking, and the bilingual-bicultural practitioner regardless of service or research setting.… (altro)