Culturally congruent care for older people: Finnish care in Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 354-361

  Heikkilä, Kristiina ^a,b,c   Sarvimäki, Anneli ^d,e   Ekman, Sirkka Liisa ^b  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c KC Research and Development Center in Elderly Care   (Sweden)

^d Age Institute   (Finland)

^e NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Culturally congruent care; Ethnicity game; Ethnography; Finnish immigrants; Mother language; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FINLAND; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEISURE; MODEL; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING HOME; SWEDEN; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

AGED; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; FINLAND; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MODELS, NURSING; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING HOMES; SWEDEN; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING;

EID: 34548207659     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2007.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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