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Dementia care in gerontological social work: emerging issues and challenges in Saudi Arabia
The issues and challenges in the current state of gerontological social work policy, practice, and education related to dementia care in Saudi Arabia are discussed in this article. The following primary issues were explored: (1) the impact of the biomedical model’s global dominance on gerontological...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10442813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37614449 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1167856 |
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description | The issues and challenges in the current state of gerontological social work policy, practice, and education related to dementia care in Saudi Arabia are discussed in this article. The following primary issues were explored: (1) the impact of the biomedical model’s global dominance on gerontological social work policy and research for dementia care and health promotion; (2) the position of the older adults in Middle Eastern nations and its connection to the lack of gerontological social work policies, programs, and care services for older adults with dementia and their family caregivers; (3) the effect of the profession of social work’s lack of recognition on the potential evolution of gerontological social work practice in dementia care; (4) the state of dementia patients’ rights, dementia patients’ safety, and dementia patients’ rights to self-determination on the gerontological social work support provided for older adults with dementia; (5) the unequal distribution of dementia care resources and gerontological social work; and (6) the social work education programs’ inability to supply the market with sufficient number of skilled gerontological social workers and its effect on the advancement of dementia care in gerontological social work practice. Approaches for advancing policy, practice, and education are provided to support the evolution of gerontological social work in dementia care in the region. |
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spelling | pubmed-104428132023-08-23 Dementia care in gerontological social work: emerging issues and challenges in Saudi Arabia Shubair, Sultan Ali Front Public Health Public Health The issues and challenges in the current state of gerontological social work policy, practice, and education related to dementia care in Saudi Arabia are discussed in this article. The following primary issues were explored: (1) the impact of the biomedical model’s global dominance on gerontological social work policy and research for dementia care and health promotion; (2) the position of the older adults in Middle Eastern nations and its connection to the lack of gerontological social work policies, programs, and care services for older adults with dementia and their family caregivers; (3) the effect of the profession of social work’s lack of recognition on the potential evolution of gerontological social work practice in dementia care; (4) the state of dementia patients’ rights, dementia patients’ safety, and dementia patients’ rights to self-determination on the gerontological social work support provided for older adults with dementia; (5) the unequal distribution of dementia care resources and gerontological social work; and (6) the social work education programs’ inability to supply the market with sufficient number of skilled gerontological social workers and its effect on the advancement of dementia care in gerontological social work practice. Approaches for advancing policy, practice, and education are provided to support the evolution of gerontological social work in dementia care in the region. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10442813/ /pubmed/37614449 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1167856 Text en Copyright © 2023 Shubair. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Shubair, Sultan Ali Dementia care in gerontological social work: emerging issues and challenges in Saudi Arabia |
title | Dementia care in gerontological social work: emerging issues and challenges in Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Dementia care in gerontological social work: emerging issues and challenges in Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Dementia care in gerontological social work: emerging issues and challenges in Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Dementia care in gerontological social work: emerging issues and challenges in Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Dementia care in gerontological social work: emerging issues and challenges in Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | dementia care in gerontological social work: emerging issues and challenges in saudi arabia |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10442813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37614449 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1167856 |
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