• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Geriatrics

Geriatrics

Ethnogeriatrics

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Home
  • Culture Med
    • Ethnogeriatrics Overview
      • Introduction
      • Patterns of Health Risk
      • Fund of Knowledge
      • Assessment
      • Delivery of Care
    • Glossary
    • Interview Strategies
  • Ethno Med
    • Background
    • African American
    • Alaska Native
    • American Indian
    • Asian Indian American
    • Chinese American
    • Filipino American
    • Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
    • Hispanic / Latino American
    • Hmong American
    • Japanese American
    • Korean American
    • Pakistani American
    • Vietnamese American
  • Medical Interpreters
    • Microlectures
    • Partnering with medical interpreter
  • Training
  • Media Coverage
  • About Us
    • Overview
    • SAGE Certificate Program
    • iSAGE Team
    • Contact iSAGE
    • Aging Adult Services at Stanford
    • System Requirements

Sensitive issues

Questions about sexuality are considered to be extremely delicate and personal. Therefore, questions about sexuality should be asked with extreme sensitivity. Asking widowed, unmarried and divorced women about their sex life is a cultural faux pas and can be taken to be an extreme insult. Older women prefer not to change into a gown even with the same-sex provider unless absolutely necessary. It may also be difficult to elicit intimate details such as bodily functions and sexual history when the health care provider interviews the female patient.

Gender issues

[photo] Pakistani woman with childPhoto courtesy of Mariam Hasan

It is commonly believed in Pakistani society that the primary duty of women is to stay home to take care of kids and family. But since economic conditions are getting tougher, women are overburdened both by working outside the home and taking care of household tasks.

Even highly acculturated Pakistani Americans regard it as natural for adult children to be responsible for aging parents and to provide care for them at home. Women customarily are the designated primary caregivers to home-dwelling Pakistani American elders. Such situations in the Pakistani American community result in a high degree of burden when caregivers feel the traditional pressures of providing all elder care personally within the home setting.

    Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • >

Primary Sidebar

Culturemed Image

Pakistani American

  • Pakistani American Older Adults
  • Learning Objectives
  • Demographics
    • Background
  • Patterns of Health Risk
    • Older Pakistani Americans
    • Health Problems for New Pakistani Immigrants

Culturally Appropriate Care

  • Fund of Knowledge
    • Traditional Health Beliefs
      • Among Pakistani Americans
    • Health Systems in Pakistan
    • Other Influences
  • Assessment
    • Important Cultural Issues
    • Sensitive issues
    • Eliciting the Patient’s Perspective
  • Delivery of Care
    • Decision Making and Disclosure
    • Advance Directives
  • Cancer Care

Learning Resources

  • Instructional Strategies
    • Case Study 1
    • Case Study 2
  • Student Evaluation
  • List of References
  • Searchable Reference Database
  • Glossary
  • Interview Strategies
© 2019 Stanford Medicine
Privacy Policy • Terms of Use