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Healthy Aging and Ethnogeriatrics

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Geography

Map of AlaskaAlaska, the Last Frontier, is a vast land mostly surrounded by water. To the north is the Arctic Ocean, to the South is the Gulf of Alaska and Pacific Ocean, to the West is the Bering Sea, and to the East is the border with Canada.

Alaska encompasses 586,400 square miles, with 33,904 miles of shoreline (33% of America’s total shoreline). It is twice the size of Texas, the second largest state in the United States, and one-fifth the area of the entire Continental United States (see Figure 1). About one-quarter of the land mass is above the Arctic Circle, where permafrost locks about two-thirds of the Arctic lands in perpetual ice. The state of Alaska is divided into four areas, including two mountain ranges, a central plateau, and the Arctic Slope or coastal plain. The state covers four times zones, and the average temperatures range from a high of 72 to a low of -22 degrees.

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Alaska Native

  • Description
  • Learning Objectives
  • Updated Summary
  • Introduction and Overview
    • Terminology
    • Geography
    • Demographics
    • Native Cultures
      • Athabascan
      • Yup’ik and Cup’ik
      • Inupiaq
      • Aleut and Alutiiq
      • Southeastern Tribes
    • Historical Background
      • Historical Trauma
      • Decade Value Development
      • Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill
      • Land Claims
  • Patterns of Health Risk
    • Causes of Death
      • Cancer
      • Diabetes
      • Trauma-Falls
      • Suicide
      • Elder Abuse

Culturally Appropriate Care

  • Fund of Knowledge
    • Cohort Analysis
      • Cohort Experiences
    • Cultural Values
      • Health Care Impact
    • Communication Patterns
      • Presentation of Self
      • Distribution of Talk
      • Contents of Talk
    • Traditional Healing
    • Important Cultural Issues
  • Assessment
    • Respect and Rapport
    • Communication
    • Standardized Instruments
    • Client Background
    • Clinical Assessment
      • Health History
      • Physical Examination
      • Cognitive and Affective Status
      • Functional Status
      • Home and Family
      • Community and Neighborhood
      • End-of-Life Preferences
    • Eliciting Perspectives
  • Cancer Care

Access & Utilization

  • Patterns of and Barriers to Utilization
  • Models of Service
  • Health Care Policy
  • Health Promotion Strategies
    • Alcohol and Substance Abuse
    • Issues in Treatment
    • Blending Biomedicine and Tradition
    • Long Term Care
    • Adult Day Programs

Learning Resources

  • Instructional Strategies
    • Case Study 1
    • Case Study 2
  • List of References
  • Searchable Reference Database
  • Glossary
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