Dementia, Communication and Culture Implications of linguistic and cultural diversity in intercultural dementia care

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ID12634468
AuthorsIngrid Hanssen (0000-0002-1720-8911, Lovisenberg Diakonale Høgskole, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume15
Issue3
Pages1-12
Publication date2015-11-10
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1404-1634 • E-ISSN: 1404-1634
PublisherInternational Collaboration for Research and Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.36923/jicc.v15i3.701
OpenAlexW2588707326
LanguageEN
References cited20

Several dementia subtypes affect either some aspect of speech fluency and/or comprehension. Linguistic diversity affects healthcare delivery, not the least in the field of dementia care. In-depth interviewing were conducted with a total of 26 family members of patients with dementia and 35 nurses experienced in dementia care in six geriatric facilities (one in Oslo, Norway, one in a Sami town in northern Norway, and four in Tshwane, South Africa). In all these facilities many nurses had different cultural and linguistic backgrounds than their patients. Language difficulties constituted a central communicative challenge in intercultural dementia care as patients often lose their knowledge of the majority language and the nurses’ knowledge of the patient’s language and culture may be limited or non-existent

Affect (linguistics · Comprehension · Cultural diversity · Dementia · Disease · Diversity (politics · Fluency · Health care · Interview · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Communication · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology

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