McKnight’s Senior Living August 1, 2024
Although there are many psychological stresses in senior living and care, I’d like to focus on one: cross-cultural issues. I’ll describe the situation and then offer some tips for making diversity of culture a positive force in the workplace, not a detriment.
If the system for long-term care in your community is anything like the one that my parents and other family members were part of, a lot of the providers and staff members I’ve encountered hail from a wide variety of places, and many, perhaps a majority, are not US-born. For example, my mother’s providers were a mix of folks from Caribbean, Hispanic, Indian and other cultures. Providers and staff from Trinidad were not the same as providers and...
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