Diversity of an aging population as a challenge for the development of cultural competences of service workers

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukasz_Tomczyk/publication/337389448_PREPARATION_TO_AGEING_AND_OLD_AGE/links/5dd51914299bf11ec8630893/PREPARATION-TO-AGEING-AND-OLD-AGE.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukasz_Tomczyk/publication/337389448_PREPARATION_TO_AGEING_AND_OLD_AGE/links/5dd51914299bf11ec8630893/PREPARATION-TO-AGEING-AND-OLD-AGE.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Diversity of an aging population as a challenge for the development of cultural competences of service workers

Original language description

Professional services for the elderly provided in health and social care institutions should reflect the diversity of the elderly population. Culturally competent practice assumes application of intercultural knowledge, values (attitudes) and skills by health and social workers in their work with socio-cultural different older people. Culturally competent work also concerns the LGBT elderly. It is a minority with rather specific experience of intolerance, discrimination and homophobia. Their sexual orientation also affects the form of their family life - LGBT people do not usually have their own procreation family, hence this source of help and support in older age is waning. This tackles the availability of informal social support by the original family, such as the siblings. Nevertheless, sibling relationships bring along not only the possibilities, but also limits. The LGBT elderly thus represent potential clients of formal care institutions, both medical and social. The paper presents partial results of qualitative research based on interviews with LGBT older people showing that siblings are seen as a source of hope and acceptance but also as loneliness. In some cases, the LGBT when coming out they “lost” their sister/brother. The paper then provides the provides best practices for culturally competent practice with members of the LGBT minority, namely the GAP model and the TGNC -AP model, suitable for working with individuals and families or groups in institutions providing health or social services.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-07321S" target="_blank" >GA17-07321S: Graying siblinghood. Sociological study of siblinghood in late adulthood</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

PREPARATION TO AGEING AND OLD AGE

ISBN

978-83-953737-2-5

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

265-288

Number of pages of the book

410

Publisher name

Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie.

Place of publication

Kraków

UT code for WoS chapter

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