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Race relations and caregiving relationships
— a qualitative examination of perspectives from residents and nurse's aides in three nursing homes | | Author(s) | Celia Berdes, John M Eckert |
| Journal title | Research on Ageing, vol 23, no 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp 109-126 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Racism ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing Auxiliary ; Attitude ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The effects are explored of racial differences between nursing home residents and nurses' aides. One third of residents exhibited race-related attitudes, which took the form either of "anachronistic racism", language not acceptable today, used in a context not intended to be offensive, and its opposite form, "malignant racism". Three-quarters of aides had experienced racism on the job. They distinguished the two forms of racism, and discounted racist comments by residents they judged to be mentally incompetent, but held others - competent residents, family members, and fellow staff - to a higher standard. In this way, they were able to maintain a caring attitude in their work. Foreign-born aides were more likely to experience racism on the job than were African American aides. They also experienced prejudice against immigrants; they interpreted it as such, because it sometimes came from people of their own race. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010723206 A |
| Classmark | TK: TMG: KX: QTE:4UA: DP: 3DP: 7T |
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