Providing Culturally Centered Palliative Care to Latino Older Adults with Dementia and Their Families.

Palliative care is essential for patients with serious illness, including those with dementia. Latino older adults are 1.5 times more likely to develop dementia than non-Latino White older adults and often do not receive palliative care, which has been shown to improve quality of life. In addition, there is great diversity among the Latino population, which comprises individuals from 20 countries, with different lived experiences and cultural expressions. Culture-centered palliative care (CCPC) is an approach to better serve the needs of this diverse community. In this article, the authors present a case study and tools for integrating CCPC into nursing practice for Latino people living with dementia and their families.

Duke Scholars

Author Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda School of Nursing