by Diverse Elders | Jun 6, 2019
by Cynthia X. Pan, MD, FACP, AGSF. This article originally appeared on the GeriPal blog. My colleagues often ask me: “Why are Chinese patients so resistant to hospice and palliative care?” “Why are they so unrealistic?” “Don’t they understand that death is part of...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 5, 2019
by Rhonda Miller. This article originally appeared on WKU Public Radio. This is part one of a three part series; read part two here and read part three here. One of the biggest barriers refugees face when they arrive in America is learning English. A program in...
by Diverse Elders | May 22, 2018
by Debbie Swanson. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. Finding assisted living or nursing care for a parent is never easy. The situation is further complicated when the individual in question is not fluent in English because he or she either never became...
by Diverse Elders | Nov 10, 2017
by Carolyn Ayon Lee. This article was originally published by Honolulu Civil Beat. Were it not for Hawaii’s Pidgin English, I doubt my Grandma and I, her first grandchild, could’ve understood each other, she knowing very little English, and I, an ignoramus about her...
by Dr. Wes Lum | Sep 26, 2017
The City of Seattle Human Services Department awarded $20,000 to the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) to evaluate the readiness of Seattle’s Korean and Vietnamese caregivers for Tailored Caregiver Assessment and Referral (TCARE®), an evidence-based care...
