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LIFE CRISES AND AGEING PEOPLE OF NON‐ENGLISH SPEAKING BACKGROUNDS: TWO PERSPECTIVES
Author(s) -
Hanen M.,
Williams A.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 0726-4240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1989.tb00772.x
Subject(s) - service (business) , politics , psychology , sociology , political science , public relations , business , law , marketing
This paper is designed to highlight some of the difficulties which may be faced by aged migrants attempting to come to terms with unresolved life crises. Given the fact that migrants arrive in Australian from countries where war and political turmoil can force hasty migration on people, we need to foster an awareness of the trauma which may be faced by non‐English speaking elderly people, in what to the general service provider appears to be secure and unthreatening service providing structures.