照顾患有阿尔茨海默氏症的个人:西班牙裔护理人员的焦点
Ricardo Isaiah Garcia1, Sachi Khemka1, Aryan Kia Roghani1,2
1Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports
|June 24, 2024
概括
对阿尔茨海默病 (AD) 和痴呆症患者的照顾正在增加,特别是在德克萨斯州的西班牙裔护理人员. 这项研究考察了他们的经济,健康和文化挑战,以提供支持资源.
科学领域:
- 老年学与公共卫生
- 神经退行性疾病和护理工作
背景情况:
- 预期寿命的增加导致阿尔茨海默氏症 (AD) 和痴呆症的患病率更高,增加了对护理人员的需求.
- 美国西班牙裔人口面临着独特的痴呆风险,原因是文化因素,教育水平较低,获得医疗保健的机会有限,以及糖尿病和心血管疾病等并发病率较高.
- 现有的文献缺乏关注西德克萨斯州西班牙裔护理人员面临的具体挑战.
研究的目的:
- 检查护理人员的经济,健康和文化地位,特别关注德克萨斯州的西班牙裔护理人员.
- 为满足对阿尔茨海默病 (AD) 和痴呆症护理人员不断增长的需求.
- 确定和讨论影响德克萨斯西部护理人员的因素的影响.
主要方法:
- 文献综述和对有关护理人员身份的现有研究进行分析.
- 专注于有关德克萨斯州西班牙裔人口的人口统计数据和风险因素.
- 探索影响西班牙裔家庭痴呆症护理的文化因素.
主要成果:
- 对阿尔茨海默病 (AD) 护理人员的需求正在增加,这是由于预期寿命和疾病患病率的增加.
- 西班牙裔人口表现出独特的痴呆风险和护理动态,需要文化敏感的方法.
- 关于德克萨斯州西部的护理人员,特别是西班牙裔护理人员的文献存在很大的差距.
结论:
- 对文化敏感的策略对于诊断,治疗和支持受痴呆症影响的西班牙裔个人和家庭至关重要.
- 了解护理人员所面临的多方面的挑战,尤其是在德克萨斯西部等服务不足的地区,至关重要.
- 该研究旨在为西班牙裔护理人员和其他面临类似情况的人提供可访问的工具和资源.
关键词:
阿尔茨海默病协会 阿尔茨海默病协会阿尔茨海默氏症是阿尔茨海默氏症的一种疾病.西班牙裔美国人.西德克萨斯州的西德克萨斯州护理人员的护理人员文化 文化 文化 文化痴呆症 痴呆症是一种痴呆症.不同的差异,不平等的差异.非西班牙裔白人.更多相关视频
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