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The Welsh Language Commissioner and Alzheimer’s Society Cymru have collaborated on a project focussing on the Welsh language and dementia. The research company Wavehill was commissioned to undertake a study of the care and support services delivered to Welsh speakers with dementia. This qualitative research involved consultation with senior officers from local authorities and health boards; academics in the field; care and support providers; and people living with dementia. The purpose of...
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The Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands of 1983 established the official nature of both Spanish and Catalan and entrusted public authorities with guaranteeing the right of citizens to use one or the other on an equal footing. Subsequent to the language legislation of 1986, the legal framework of Catalan has varied depending on the majority party that forms a government. The debate stirred up by these regulations demonstrates the difficulties in...
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Introduction: Increasingly, people are turning toward digital health technologies to support their care management, communication with health professionals, and performing activities of daily living. Digital health technologies may be well implemented in clinical practices in several jurisdictions, but the influence of sociocultural factors may sometimes be neglected. To increase use and sustainability of these innovative solutions in health care, we need to understand acceptability among...
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Background The study explores the language barriers between two language minority populations and healthcare professionals in the Volta Region of Ghana. Methods An interpretive description with a qualitative approach to data collection and analysis was used. This study was carried out in the Tafi-Atome and Avatime-Vane communities, the Hohoe Municipal Hospital and the Margaret Marquart Catholic Hospital in the Kpando Municipality. In all, 46 respondents comprising 19 purposively sampled...
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Despite the importance of interactions in services, the role language plays in services is an under-researched field. This paper outlines for which services language is especially important. Consistent across studies in three countries (Belgium, Canada and Finland), the findings suggest that bilingual consumers find it particularly important to be served in their native language in high-involvement services. Moreover, for high-involvement services, all consumers find it important to be...
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This chapter examines the effects of language barriers on the access of patients and communities to quality health care. It also looks at communication challenges experienced by health professionals that provide this care. Using a case study of a rural hospital, the chapter highlights some of the challenges posed by the language barrier and explores current methods that English-speaking health professionals at this hospital use to overcome these difficulties. The case study findings indicate...
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At Hywel Dda, we acknowledge and celebrate our diverse communities in West Wales. The Health Board takes its statutory duties towards the Welsh Language very seriously. As an organisation we have always tried to deliver our services in the service users’ language of need. However, despite a commitment to deliver the Welsh Language Standards, we have not consistently achieved this. We aim to improve further by ensuring the delivery of the active offer concept, so that members of the public...
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