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Healthy Aging and Ethnogeriatrics

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    • Ethnogeriatrics Overview
      • Introduction
      • Patterns of Health Risk
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      • Delivery of Care
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    • Background
    • African American
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Fictive Kin

Johnson, C. L. (1999). Fictive kin among oldest old African Americans in the San Francisco Bay area. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 54(6), S368-375.

Jordan-Marsh, M., & Harden, J. T. (2005). Fictive kin: friends as family supporting older adults as they age. J Gerontol Nurs, 31(2), 24-31; quiz 58-29.

Stewart, P. (2007). Who is kin? Family definition and African American families. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 15(2-3), 163-181.

Taylor, R. J., Chatters, L. M., Hardison, C. B., & Riley, A. (2001). Informal social support networks and subjective well-being among African Americans. Journal of Black Psychology, 27(4), 439-463.

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African American

  • Description
  • Learning Objectives
  • Introduction & Overview
    • Population Growth and Distribution
    • Characteristics
  • Patterns of Health Risk
    • Mortality
    • Morbidity
    • Self-Rated Health and Functional Status

CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE CARE

  • Fund of Knowledge
    • Health History
      • Up from slavery
      • Health and Longevity Since the Mid-19th Century
      • Significant Dates and Periods
      • Cohort Experiences
    • Health Beliefs
    • Illness Causes & Interventions
  • Assessment
    • Cultural Biases and Misdiagnoses
    • Showing Respect
    • Use of Assesment Instruments
  • Delivery of Care
    • Cardiovascular Disease
    • Stroke
    • Breast Cancer
    • Mental Health
    • End-of-life Care
  • Cancer Care

Access and Utilization

  • Disparities
    • 1. Patient-Based Factors
    • 2. Physician-Based Factors
      • Maltreatment and Segregated Training
      • Discriminatory Patterns
      • Social and Kinship Networks
      • Informal Caregiving
      • Caregiver Burden
      • Long-Term Care
    • 3. End-of-Life Care Issues
      • Palliative and Hospice Care
      • Advance Directives
      • Role of Church and Religion
  • Health Promotion
    • Improving Health Care

Learning Resources

  • Instructional Strategies
    • Projects and Assignments
    • Case Study 1: Mr. S
      • Overview and History
      • Course and Outcome
      • Cultural Issues
    • Case Study 2: Mrs. P
  • Student Evaluation
  • List of References
    • General
    • Fictive Kin
    • Breast Cancer
    • Tuskegee Study
  • Searchable Reference Database
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  • Important Cultural Terminology
  • Glossary
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