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Training in aged care advocacy for primary health care workers in central Australia: an evaluation
Author(s)	Komla Tsey, Sue Morrish, Alison Lucas
Journal title	Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 17, no 4, November 1998
Pages	pp 167-171
Keywords	Rights [elderly] ; Advocacy ; Patients [nursing homes] ; Personnel ; Ethnic groups ; Rural areas ; Australia.
Annotation	Concern felt by advocates for frail, aged Aboriginal people in central Australia that residents are in nursing homes against their wishes led to a project to promote the process of obtaining informed consent. A Trainer's Manual was developed for workshops to help health care providers - especially remote area nurses - learn about this process and about respecting the rights of older people. This paper reports the findings of an evaluation of the Trainer's Manual. Although the manual challenged the basis of decision-making of health professionals looking after the care needs of older Aboriginal people in remote areas, it was not entirely successful with all the target audience partly because a perceived lack of Aboriginal input at many levels of the project and partly, too, because of a lack of input to the process by remote area nurses. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-990111402 A
Classmark	IKR: IQ: LHB:LF: QM: TK: RL: 7YA
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