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Training in Aged Care Advocacy for Primary Health Care Workers in Central Australia: an evaluation
Author(s) -
Tsey Komla,
Morrish Sue,
Lucas Alison,
Boffa John
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
australasian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 1440-6381
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1998.tb00067.x
Subject(s) - trainer , duty , nursing , health care , resource (disambiguation) , medicine , psychology , public relations , medical education , political science , computer network , computer science , law , programming language
. Concern felt by advocates for frail aged Aboriginal people in central Australia that residents are in nursing homes against their wishes led to a project to promote the process of obtaining informed consent. A Trainer's Manual was developed for workshops to help health care providers ‐ especially remote area nurses ‐ learn about this process and about respecting the rights of the elderly. This paper reports the findings of an evaluation of the Trainer's Manual . Although the manual challenged the basis of decision‐making of health professionals looking after the aged care needs of remote area Aboriginal people, it was not entirely sucessful with all the target audience partly because of a perceived lack of Aboriginal input at many levels of the project and partly, too, because of a lack of input to the process by remote area nurses. The workshops raise, among other things, important issues relating to the rights of the frail aged to make informed choices about their care versus the health professionals' sense of duty to their clients, reflecting both a need for ongoing examination and definition of what constitutes care, as well as challenging governments to address and resource the rights of Aboriginal people with regards to their service needs. The issues also reflect a need for greater attention to be paid to cross‐cultural training in the education of health professionals.