Abstract
A Chinese Dementia Specialist Education Program (CDSEP) was launched in the Greater Boston Area to educate Chinese American health care providers who lacked adequate dementia education and services. This program trained bilingual health care providers to identify, assess and serve people with dementia and their families, and raised dementia awareness in Chinese American communities. The ten-month follow-up survey documented that the sixteen graduates helped over 70 families and held 76 workshops and formal and informal discussions, reaching over 400 people. The CDSEP demonstrates that a “Train the Trainer” model is an effective approach for building dementia care capacity in community-based agencies, increasing outreach to people with dementia and their families, and for raising dementia awareness in bilingual and minority communities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 67-86 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Home Health Care Services Quarterly |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 31 2002 |
Keywords
- Chinese American communities
- Culturally competent services
- Dementia
- Dementia awareness
- Dementia experts
- Dementia training
- Education
- Health care providers
- Outreach
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Policy
- Community and Home Care
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health