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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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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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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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Aim. This paper reports on the second phase of a national study in Wales. The research aimed to assess the level of Welsh language awareness amongst healthcare professionals across Wales, and to identify the factors that enhance language choice within service delivery. Background. The literature suggests that language sensitive healthcare practice is central to ensuring high quality care. However, it is evident that language barriers continue to compromise the quality of care within nursing...
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BACKGROUND: Disease is closely linked to the social context in which we live. Difficulty with communication, cultural incompatibility between patients and health care providers and socioeconomic obstacles are important barriers to quality care when doctors and patients come from different backgrounds and speak different languages. Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCH) is a paediatric teaching hospital in Cape Town where staff members communicate mainly in English or Afrikaans,...
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Abstract: This paper presents findings from a pilot research project to explore the significance and availability of mental health services in the medium of Welsh in Wales UK. Based on small‐scale research with Welsh‐speaking mental health service users this article argues that being bilingual can be a significant factor in the complex biopsychosocial matrix that underpins mental health problems amongst Welsh speakers. It also argues that the destructive effects of linguistic...
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The loss of language skills is one of the most challenging aspects of living with dementia. This is particularly true for bilingual individuals, who have difficulty in maintaining fluency in more than one language. Language and culture overlap greatly, with potential implications for the well-being of people with dementia (PWD) being cared for in their ‘second’ language or culture. Our aim was to review the available relevant literature, together with an examination of the potential effects...
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The Welsh Consumer Council set about defining the consumer interest in language in its 1996 report, Welsh as a Consumer Issue. That report emphasised how and why the opportunities for using the Welsh language be considered from the view of the consumer. In general, service providers are well equipped to look after their own interests – the consumer by comparison is often weak. It is this theme that is picked up in this report – Welsh in the Health Service: The Scope, Nature and Adequacy of...
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