Mainstream versus ethno‐specific community aged care services: It's not an ‘either or’

Radermacher, Harriet; Feldman, Susan; Browning, Colette Joy

doi:10.1111/j.1741-6612.2008.00342.x

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“…Communication with the welfare system may be a barrier because of language difficulties (Egeblad 2005;Radermacher et al 2009;Denktas 2011;Hurley et al 2012). A qualitative interview study of 29 immigrants in Copenhagen and 3 of their relatives (Dupont and Fatum 2007) concluded that older immigrants and their relatives have limited knowledge of the availability of assistance from municipal elder care services.…”

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Older immigrants’ use of public home care and residential care

Hansen¹

2013

Eur J Ageing

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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the extent to which length of residence in the country and country of origin are of importance to older immigrants' use of long-term care services compared to native older people. The analyses were conducted on a population of over 65s living in the Municipality of Copenhagen on 1st Jan 2007. Information was drawn from the administrative registers of the Municipality of Copenhagen on the population's use in 2007 of home care and of residential care in a nursing home. These data were combined by Statistics Denmark with demographic data, socio-economic data and data on the use of health services. It was found that older immigrants are less likely than ethnic Danes to use municipal long-term care services when other predisposing, enabling and need factors are controlled for. The difference is greatest between ethnic Danes and immigrants from nonwestern countries who have only lived in Denmark for a few years. The difference decreases the longer the immigrant has lived in the country. The findings may be explained, at least in part, by poorer language skills and poorer knowledge of the Danish welfare system among older immigrants and the fact that they are more likely to be cared for by relatives than ethnic Danes are. However, in the course of time language skills improve and knowledge of the system increases and life style with respect to care may approach that of older Danes.

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Older immigrants’ use of public home care and residential care

Hansen¹

2013

Eur J Ageing

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“…We also anticipated that help-seeking pathways would depend on age, as barriers to accessing health services are greater for older than younger people (Radermacher et al, 2009). Although not evident within the West African sample, the older less-educated Australian women were more likely than other women to seek help from a general practitioner for stress.…”

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“…It was hypothesized that barriers to accessing health services would be greatest for women with few years of schooling and with only a short period of acculturation. As older people, particularly those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, face many barriers to accessing health services (Radermacher, Feldman, & Browning, 2009), it was anticipated that the older women would report more barriers than younger women to accessing these services.…”

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Barriers to Accessing Health Care Services for West African Refugee Women Living in Western Australia

Drummond

Mizan

Brocx

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Health Care for Women International

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Help-seeking pathways and barriers to accessing health care services were surveyed in 51 West African refugee women who had settled recently in Perth, Western Australia, and in 100 Australian women. Shame or fear of what family and friends might think, fear of being judged by the treatment provider, fear of hospitalization, and logistical difficulties were significant impediments to accessing health care services for the refugee women. Surprisingly, barriers often were greater for the more-educated refugee women and strengthened with years of residence in Australia. Strategies to help at-risk women overcome these barriers need to be implemented to ensure appropriate access to health care services.

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“…In New Zealand, studies focusing on South Korean, Chinese, South African, and Indian migrants have been undertaken (Alpass et al, 2007; DeSouza, 2006; Park & Kim, 2013), revealing migration issues and processes affecting migrants’ psychological well-being and their experiences of growing old in New Zealand. Furthermore, there has been an increase in empirical work documenting the complex health and well-being needs of older migrants, who are culturally and linguistically diverse (Al Abed, Davidson, & Hickman, 2014; Radermacher, Feldman, & Browning, 2009). Ageing in general is accompanied by inevitable and complex co-morbidities, including physiological and psychosocial health-related issues.…”

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Moving backwards, moving forward: the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to life in New Zealand

Montayre

Neville

Holroyd

2017

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Purpose: To explore the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to living permanently in New Zealand.Method: The qualitative descriptive approach taken in this study involved 17 individual face-to-face interviews of older Filipino migrants in New Zealand.Results: Three main themes emerged from the data. The first theme was “moving backwards and moving forward”, which described how these older Filipino migrants adjusted to challenges they experienced with migration. The second theme was “engaging with health services” and presented challenges relating to the New Zealand healthcare system, including a lack of knowledge of the nature of health services, language barriers, and differences in cultural views. The third theme, “new-found home”, highlighted establishing a Filipino identity in New Zealand and adjusting to the challenges of relocation.Conclusion: Adjustment to life in New Zealand for these older Filipino migrants meant starting over again by building new values through learning the basics and then moving forward from there.

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Mainstream versus ethno‐specific community aged care services: It's not an ‘either or’

Cited by 38 publications

References 17 publications

Older immigrants’ use of public home care and residential care

Older immigrants’ use of public home care and residential care

Barriers to Accessing Health Care Services for West African Refugee Women Living in Western Australia

Moving backwards, moving forward: the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to life in New Zealand

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