International projects
Competences for culturally sensitive care
Organisations (1)
| no. |
Code |
Research organisation |
City |
Registration number |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
0510 |
University of Ljubljana |
Ljubljana |
5085063 |
250 |
Abstract
Elderly people do not want to go to nursing home. They want to grow old in their own houses where they have spent their life. It’s a well known fact that helpless elderly people die of thirst during hot months or that ill people in need of care are, above all, discredited for burdening the public health system and the pension fund. Society, however, avoids facing the important and future-relevant topic of elderly care. In European practice, the topic is tackled in different ways. France meets the challenge of domestic care and trains domestic care services. In Germany, there are rigorous regulations for care services, whereas in other European countries, for 98 percent of the children it is natural to look after their parents at home. The nursing home being an outdated model, outpatient care and alternative forms of housing such as day care facilities will presumably have to be set up in the next few decades. When it comes to the concrete realisation of care, cultural aspects are often missed out. Negligence concerns cultural differences between older and young people, immigrants and locals, women and men, people in need of care and healthy people, professionals and volunteers, or outpatient and inpatient nurses. Through the implementation of culturally sensitive care existing resources could be exploited more efficiently - to the benefit of as well those in need of care as staff, relatives, and cost bearers. Competences for culturally sensitive care require nurses’ knowledge, skills, will, and authority. The project “Competences for Culturally Sensitive Care” intended to develop guidelines for culturally sensitive care which are mades accessible to the systems of the partner countries. Six European organisations cooperated with their respective national networks to produce an interactive CD for the knowledge management “Culturally sensitive knowledge, skills, will, and authority in care”.
