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Chinese American Older Adults

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Description

This module is designed to provide information to increase the health care provider’s awareness of specific cultural, racial, ethnic, and tribal influences on health and health care of the older American Indian.

World view, life experiences, and the cultural context in which today’s American Indian elderly live are described as it relates to health care. Note, data depicted are relevant to the overall American Indian population but individual tribes may have higher or lower rates.

Information in the content section is based on evidence from research, and citations to the published studies are included.

Course Director & Editor in Chief of the Ethnogeriatrics Curriculum & Training

VJ Periyakoil, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
periyakoil at stanford dot edu

Authors

Cynthia X. Pan, MD, AGSF, FACP 
Hospice Care Network

Sandy Chen Stokes, RN, MSNChi
Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care

Copyright/Referencing Information:

Users are free to download and distribute eCampus Geriatrics modules for educational purposes only.

When using this resource please cite us as follows:

Chen Stokes, S, RN, MSN & Pan, C, MD, AGSF, FACP: Health and health care of Chinese American Older Adults https://geriatrics.stanford.edu/ethnomed/chinese.html. In Periyakoil VS, eds. eCampus-Geriatrics, Stanford CA, 2010.

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Chinese American

  • Description
  • Learning Objectives
  • Introduction and Overview
    • Current Population
    • Religion
    • Language
  • Patterns of Health Risk
    • Role of Western Society
    • Depression
    • Alcoholism
    • Dementia
    • Infectious Disease
    • Cancer
      • Liver Cancer
      • NPC
      • Breast Cancer
      • Prostate Cancer
      • Colon Cancer
      • Lung Cancer
    • Smoking
    • Cardiovascular Disease
    • Diabetes
    • ESRD

Culturally Appropriate Care

  • Fund of Knowledge
    • Beliefs and Practices
      • Confucianism
      • Other Influences
      • Conflicts with Western Autonomy
    • Cohort Analysis
      • Historical Influence
      • Significant Dates and Periods
    • Acculturation
  • Assessment
    • Heterogeneity vs. Homogeneity
    • Degree of Acculturation and Traditional Beliefs
  • Delivery of Care
    • Health Care Provider Role
    • Traditional Chinese Medicine
    • Psychotherapy
    • Advance Directives/End of Life Issues
    • Medications
  • Cancer Care

Access & Utilization

  • Health Care Utilization
  • Long Term Care

Learning Resources

  • Instructional Strategies
    • Case Study 1
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