Cargando…
Enhancing the lives of older refugees: an evaluation of a training resource
BACKGROUND: Resources and training for aged care workers who are working with older people from refugee backgrounds are limited. Thus, a resource titled ‘Enhancing the Lives of Older Refugees: A self-Improvement Resource for Community Service Providers’ was developed in 2011, and later accompanied b...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2016
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4850683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27134649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0067-5 |
_version_ | 1782429695994757120 |
---|---|
author | Slewa-Younan, Shameran Santalucia, Yvonne McDonald, Regina Salem, Marisa |
author_facet | Slewa-Younan, Shameran Santalucia, Yvonne McDonald, Regina Salem, Marisa |
author_sort | Slewa-Younan, Shameran |
collection | PubMed |
description | BACKGROUND: Resources and training for aged care workers who are working with older people from refugee backgrounds are limited. Thus, a resource titled ‘Enhancing the Lives of Older Refugees: A self-Improvement Resource for Community Service Providers’ was developed in 2011, and later accompanied by a training program developed in 2012. The aim of the resource and accompanying training was to assist community aged care service providers, based in South Western Sydney and surrounding areas, to recognise an older refugee, increase their knowledge and skills in working with older refugees, have a greater understanding of older refugees’ life experiences, and provide additional information that would allow them to offer appropriate services to those in their care. This paper reports on the evaluation of the training package provided to community aged care personnel. METHODS: Eleven training sessions were conducted with all participants invited to take part in the research. One hundred and twenty-eight consenting participants completed a pre and post training evaluation questionnaire. RESULTS: Analysis of the data indicated a positive change in participant’s ability to define an older refugee, understanding older refugee’s life experiences, loss and grief, the impact of the refugees’ experience in old age and the capacity to locate and access information to support the care of older refugees. CONCLUSIONS: The findings lend support that this mode of training can provide information and resources to increase the capacity of aged care workers to better meet the needs of older people from a refugee background. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13033-016-0067-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-4850683 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2016 |
publisher | BioMed Central |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-48506832016-04-30 Enhancing the lives of older refugees: an evaluation of a training resource Slewa-Younan, Shameran Santalucia, Yvonne McDonald, Regina Salem, Marisa Int J Ment Health Syst Research BACKGROUND: Resources and training for aged care workers who are working with older people from refugee backgrounds are limited. Thus, a resource titled ‘Enhancing the Lives of Older Refugees: A self-Improvement Resource for Community Service Providers’ was developed in 2011, and later accompanied by a training program developed in 2012. The aim of the resource and accompanying training was to assist community aged care service providers, based in South Western Sydney and surrounding areas, to recognise an older refugee, increase their knowledge and skills in working with older refugees, have a greater understanding of older refugees’ life experiences, and provide additional information that would allow them to offer appropriate services to those in their care. This paper reports on the evaluation of the training package provided to community aged care personnel. METHODS: Eleven training sessions were conducted with all participants invited to take part in the research. One hundred and twenty-eight consenting participants completed a pre and post training evaluation questionnaire. RESULTS: Analysis of the data indicated a positive change in participant’s ability to define an older refugee, understanding older refugee’s life experiences, loss and grief, the impact of the refugees’ experience in old age and the capacity to locate and access information to support the care of older refugees. CONCLUSIONS: The findings lend support that this mode of training can provide information and resources to increase the capacity of aged care workers to better meet the needs of older people from a refugee background. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13033-016-0067-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4850683/ /pubmed/27134649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0067-5 Text en © Slewa-Younan et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Slewa-Younan, Shameran Santalucia, Yvonne McDonald, Regina Salem, Marisa Enhancing the lives of older refugees: an evaluation of a training resource |
title | Enhancing the lives of older refugees: an evaluation of a training resource |
title_full | Enhancing the lives of older refugees: an evaluation of a training resource |
title_fullStr | Enhancing the lives of older refugees: an evaluation of a training resource |
title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing the lives of older refugees: an evaluation of a training resource |
title_short | Enhancing the lives of older refugees: an evaluation of a training resource |
title_sort | enhancing the lives of older refugees: an evaluation of a training resource |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4850683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27134649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0067-5 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT slewayounanshameran enhancingthelivesofolderrefugeesanevaluationofatrainingresource AT santaluciayvonne enhancingthelivesofolderrefugeesanevaluationofatrainingresource AT mcdonaldregina enhancingthelivesofolderrefugeesanevaluationofatrainingresource AT salemmarisa enhancingthelivesofolderrefugeesanevaluationofatrainingresource |