Department of Occupational Therapy Program Faculty Articles
Title
Cultural Factors in Geriatric Rehabilitation: Ethnic-Specific Generational Cultures
ISBN or ISSN
0882-7524
Volume
12
Issue
3
Date of original Performance / Presentation
1-1-1997
Publication Date / Copyright Date
1-1997
First Page
1
Last Page
9
Abstract
Geriatric rehabilitation practitioners need to know how to identify cultural factors that affect therapy and how to apply cultural knowledge in practice. Identifying cultural factors requires a real understanding of culture as it varies from obvious to exquisitely subtle. The process of inquiry to ascertain cultural factors is offered as a more accurate way of judging a patient's cultural status than lists of traits. Also, practitioners must distinguish between ethnic-specific cultural factors and cross-cutting generational cohort factors.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Henderson, J. N. and Whaley, Mirtha M., "Cultural Factors in Geriatric Rehabilitation: Ethnic-Specific Generational Cultures" (1997). Department of Occupational Therapy Program Faculty Articles. 72.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_ot_faculty_articles/72