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Evaluation and Cultural Influence of Nurses' Attitudes toward Elderly Care

In: New Research in Nursing - Education and Practice

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  • R.N. Hiroko Shimizu

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The eldery population among the 38 countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; thus, nurses have many opportunities to care for the elderly. The elderly are more likely to suffer from diseases, such as geriatric syndrome and sarcopenia, in addition to frailty. Medical personnel is reported to have a protective attitude, but the problems of nurses' dialog attitudes include confusion, concern, prejudice, and difficulty in dialog with patients with critical illnesses. Therefore, we had developed the scale to evaluate the negative aspects of nurses' interactive attitudes toward the elderly. The validity and reliability for the scale of the 15-item and 7-law methods were determined. A comparison of the dialog orientation scales of nurses and nursing students revealed that nurses are more positive as they gain more experience. Additionally, nurses were more negative about age discrimination in dialog and the difficulty of dialog with seriously injured people than caregivers because nurses care for more severely ill elderly. Moreover, we implemented a program to conduct dialog training with the elderly from the stage of nursing students, which revealed a clear effect.

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  • R.N. Hiroko Shimizu, 2023. "Evaluation and Cultural Influence of Nurses' Attitudes toward Elderly Care," Chapters, in: Victor Chaban (ed.), New Research in Nursing - Education and Practice, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:298208
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.109818
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    Keywords

    elderly care; nurse; prejudiced attitude; cognitive bias; Japan;
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    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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