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Use of Culture Care Theory with Anglo- and African American Elders in a Long-Term Care Setting

Marilyn R. McFarland, RN; PhD

Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI

The purpose of this study was to discover the care expressions, practices, and patterns of elderly Anglo- and African American elders. The domain of inquiry was the cultural care of elderly residents within the environmental context of a long-term care institution. The ethnonursing qualitative research method was used to conduct the study which was conceptualized within Leininger's theory of culture care diversity and universality. Four major themes were discovered: (a) Residents expressed and lived generic care to maintain their preadmission lifeways; (b) The nursing staff provided aspects of professional care to support satisfying lifeways for residents; (c) Institutional care patterns and expressions were viewed as a continuing life experience but with major differences between the apartment section and nursing home units; and (d) An institutional culture of the retirement home was discovered which reflected unique lifeways and shared care and health expressions and practices. These themes substantiated the culture care theory and revealed new modes of care for the elderly in an institutional setting.

Key Words: African American Elders • Anglo-American Elders • Cultural Care • Leininger • Transcultural Nursing

Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 4, 186-192 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/089431849701000412
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