Abstract
This poster describes a clinical evaluation process for dementia behavior consultants and aged care coordinators to utilize when evaluating the effectiveness of care planned for people with dementia from culturally diverse and/or refugee backgrounds who are unable to communicate their needs for assistance to maintain their sense of identity and belonging. Within multicultural communities’ diversity and inclusion goals can be aided by clinical practice guidelines to minimize ethnocentrism and enhance and evaluate care planned on behalf of those people with dementia experiencing mental illness unable to participate in a care partnership. This poster focusses on the case study’s care plan of a resident(? of refugee background which was evaluated using a model for ensuring cultural responsiveness in conjunction with Dementia Australia’s CAUSED problem-solving model for BPSD. The audit process identified that this refugees’ psychological needs to maintain a healthy sense of identity and belonging could have been further enhanced with referrals to a culturally appropriate community visitors’ scheme and assistance to contact family in his country of origin. Conclusions: The models used were effective audit tools that aided identification of oversights or omissions in culturally responsive care planned for this refugee with dementia who had a complicated psychological history and was unable to communicate his needs. This process has implications for achieving best practice dementia care in diverse communities.
Presenters
Karen ThodeCultural Diversity Officer and Aged Psychiatry, Aged Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment Team, Residential Support Program , St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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DEMENTIA, AGED CARE, CLINICAL PRACTICE
