Chinese Dementia Specialist Education Program: training Chinese American health care professionals as dementia experts.

Journal Article (Multicenter Study;Journal Article)

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.

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Duke Authors

Cited Authors

  • Lombardo, NBE; Wu, B; Hohnstein, JK; Chang, K

Published Date

  • January 2002

Published In

Volume / Issue

  • 21 / 1

Start / End Page

  • 67 - 86

PubMed ID

  • 12196935

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1545-0856

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0162-1424

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1300/j027v21n01_04

Language

  • eng