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Exploring staff clinical knowledge and practice with LGBT residents in long-term care
— a grounded theory of cultural competency and training needs | | Author(s) | Weston V Donaldson, Tammi Vacha-Haase |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 39, nos 1-5, 2016 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 389-409 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Care home staff ; Medical care ; Management [care] ; Gay men ; Lesbians ; Bi-sexuals ; Transexuals ; Needs [elderly] ; Training [welfare work] ; Theory ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Existing literature shows that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents are likely to face sub-optimal care in long-term care (LTC) facilities because of prejudice and discriminatory policies. The aim of this project was to assess the LGBT cultural competency of staff working in LTC facilities, to identify their current training needs, and to develop a framework for understanding LGBT cultural competency among LTC staff and providers. This grounded theory study comprised data from focus groups of interdisciplinary staff from three American LTC facilities. Results suggested that LTC staff struggle with how to be sensitive to LGBT residents' needs. Tension appeared to exist between wanting to provide an equal standard of care to all LTC residents, and fearing they would show "favouritism" or "special treatment", which might be viewed as unprofessional. Participants indicated training could help to address the ambivalence they experience about providing sensitive care to subpopulations of residents who face stigma and oppression. LTC staff stand to benefit from cultural competency training focused on LGBT residents. Training should be not only informational in nature, but also facilitate greater self-awareness and self-efficacy with respect to providing care to LGBT people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170120221 A |
| Classmark | QRM: LK: QA: ES6DA: ES6DB: ES6E: ES6G: IK: QW: 4D: 7T |
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