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  • Title: Hispanic-American elders. Implications for health-care providers.
    Author: Pousada L.
    Journal: Clin Geriatr Med; 1995 Feb; 11(1):39-52. PubMed ID: 7720020.
    Abstract:
    American health-care practitioners are faced with a rapidly growing, geriatric, Hispanic-American population. This group shares certain cultural links but is largely heterogeneous and comprised of many subgroups, the largest of which are Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans. Health-care practitioners face significant socioeconomic, cultural, and language barriers in providing care to these patients. An understanding of Hispanic-American social dynamics, an understanding of culture-bound syndromes, and efforts to successfully overcome language barriers are essential to optimal patient care. Exploration of the ethnic complexity of Hispanic-American subgroups will help to free practitioners from medical and racial stereotypes and allow development of cultural insights that can strengthen and enrich the doctor-patient relationship.
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