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Running head: CULTURAL SAFETY IN OLDER PEOPLECULTURAL SAFETY IN OLDER PEOPLEName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note

1CULTURAL SAFETY IN OLDER PEOPLETable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Interventions:...................................................................................................................................6Second assessment:..........................................................................................................................7Philosophical interventions and educational theories:.....................................................................8Discussion:.....................................................................................................................................10References......................................................................................................................................12

2CULTURAL SAFETY IN OLDER PEOPLEIntroductionThe concept of cultural safety had come from the health care experiences of the maorinurses. The term cultural safety can be can be related to the concept of cultural competence orculture specific care but is sometimes interpreted as addressing of the ethnic or the cultural needsof the clients. It is a concept for ensuring people of different cultural background to feel safe intheir experiences. The relevance of the aged care to cultural safety is more relevant to ethnicity.It is about disability, gender, religion, socio economic sector. Cultural safety becomes criticalwhile providing care to some aged patients belonging to different community. If the culturalelements are primarily designed or influenced by religion, then the matter of cultural competencecomes in to play (Slade et al., 2014). The aged population may have several predeterminednotions that can act as barriers from getting the patient centered care. The proportion of the agedpeople in New Zealand is growing much more rapidly and the augmentation of the agedpopulation in Maori and the pacific will become significant in the next 50 years. This assignmentwill critically reflect on a care scenario involving an 85 year old maori individual who had faceda few cultural safety issues while receiving the heath care. Assessment:Cultural safety can be defined as the practice principle in any care providing scenario thatrespects different cultures and their traditional norms, all the while providing a dignified andinclusive treatment to the culturally diverse individuals. On a more elaborative note, culturalsafety can be defined as the process that provides the culturally diverse individuals with theopportunity to understand the worth their culture and tradition and be able to respect their ownculture. It has to be mentioned in this context that the concept of cultural safety is integrally

3CULTURAL SAFETY IN OLDER PEOPLEassociated with the different aspects of health (Mathieson et al., 2012). The aboriginalsespecially have a very different idea of health and often the mainstream clinical trajectoriesintersperse with the traditional concepts of healing. Hence in this process of the cultural safety ofthe different individuals belonging to different cultural backgrounds are violated. In this caseyear study that is going to be critically assessed in this assignment the patient had been Suzanne,a 70 year old woman who had been presented to the health care facility due to suicidal attempt.The assessment discovered that the patients had been suffering from depression ever since shelost her husband 5 years ago and attempted to take her own life n the 5th death anniversary of herhusband. Further assessment discovered that the patient had been living alone in her home with noone to care for her. She had two daughters; both of them lived away from the city and rarelycould make the time for coming to their hometown and visited her. Hence living alone in the cityaffected her psych and the psychological burden of her living alone after the death of herhusband had affected her significantly. Subjective assessment of the patient revealed that she hadbeen suffering from self harming tendencies for past few months however she never sought outmental health care neither did she visit any of the community care services. On further inquiryshe was not able to communicate with most of our emergency care team, and had appeared veryagitated and scared. However with the intervention from the aboriginal language experts, it wasdiscovered that she did not find any flaw in wanting to end her life and she felt she does notrequire any mental health care. She further informed us that she had been feeling that the purposeof her life had been lost for years and she would need to pay for hers sins now and no health carewill be able to impact any effect, her destiny is clear to her. Critical analysis

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