Hospice and Caregiving Blog: Diversity in Caregiving

The AARP Public Policy Institute recently release a report, "Meeting the Needs of Diverse Family Caregivers," that examines how addressing diversity among family caregivers can?help improve care transition and reduce?unnecessary hospitalizations and nursing home care.

Hospice Foundation of America has produced this free program to examine how hospice care can support?diverse populations.

Addressing Cultural Diversity in Hospice

Dying and death are not easy for any one person, family or community to manage. It is a human instinct to hope for comfort, peace, and dignity, and to be surrounded by loved ones at the end of life. And yet, there are differences in how people cope with dying and death. Our backgrounds and cultures can influence these end-of-life experiences, including how we deal with a terminal diagnosis and how we grieve a death. Many elements make up a person?s culture-- language, social circumstance, religion and spirituality, sexual orientation and gender. All of these can impact how individuals find meaning and purpose in their living and dying and come to terms with the loss and remembrance of family and loved ones. This program, Addressing Cultural Diversity in Hospice, looks at how our differences, and our similarities, affect end-of-life decisions, and how hospice care can support culturally diverse patients and families. (50 min)

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Hospice outreach professionals should watch HFA's video, "Reaching Out to Underserved Populations" for examples of how hospices are being innovative in meeting the needs of their communities.

Source: http://blog.hospicefoundation.org/2012/09/diversity-in-caregiving.html

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