Immigrants and dementia: Literature update
| Autor: | Mariya, Kovaleva, Abigail, Jones, Cathy A, Maxwell, Elizabeth M, Long |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Gerontology
Population Psychological intervention Ethnic group Emigrants and Immigrants Stigma (botany) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Foreign born mental disorders Ethnicity medicine Humans Dementia 030212 general & internal medicine Social isolation education education.field_of_study medicine.disease Acculturation Educational Status medicine.symptom Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Geriatric Nursing. 42:1218-1221 |
| ISSN: | 0197-4572 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.04.019 |
| Popis: | The population of immigrants in the U.S. is increasing with older immigrants experiencing age-related decline more rapidly than the U.S.-born white population. Immigrants have a higher prevalence and risk of dementia, including undiagnosed dementia. Older immigrants face unique obstacles in terms of their cognitive health, including language barriers, economic constraints, depressive symptoms, social isolation, low acculturation to the U.S., stigma related to dementia, and lacking education about dementia. Nurses, including advanced practice registered nurses, are well-positioned to enhance immigrants' access to accurate information about dementia and to promote immigrants' timely diagnosis and treatment of dementia symptoms. Several interventions have been developed specifically for immigrant caregivers. Immigrant families need interventions that provide education about dementia, offer resources for caregivers nationally and locally, and are targeted towards specific ethnic groups. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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