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Dementia care for Indigenous Peoples

Format:
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Length:
60 minutes

Created By: Sharlene Webkamigad, Brainxchange

Date Published: 2022

Category: Respond to mood or behaviour changes, Learn from people with lived experience, Access clinical guidelines

Description:

This recorded seminar video shares culturally safe approaches to dementia care for Indigenous Peoples. Culturally safe care means adapting care services to a person’s cultural context The presenter is Sharlene Webkamiga, a registered nurse and PhD candidate. She discusses the importance of culturally safe care, sharing examples and how Indigenous worldviews of dementia differ from non-Indigenous perspectives. This session is useful for health care providers.

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This resource

  • Features Indigenous perspectives
  • Is intended for a health care provider audience
  • Is relevant to long-term care home
  • Created in Canada