Diversity training for community aged care workers: An interdisciplinary meta-narrative review
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Ogrin, Rajna
Al-Zubaidi, Hamzah
Appannah, Arti
McMillan, Sally
Barrett, Elizabeth
Browning, Colette
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Population ageing signals the need for a responsive community aged care workforce respectful of older people’s diverse healthcare needs. Person-centered care premises individual needs and preferences to enhance participation in health care. Training for diversity does not yet exist for this workforce, but is necessary to ensure appropriate care for diverse community-dwelling older people. This article aims to review the range of research traditions for conceptualizing diversity training, theoretical approaches, and empirical findings to understand the relevance for the community aged care sector. Using a meta-narrative approach, research from health, education, psychology, sociology, and business literature was reviewed for meaningful contribution to supporting training for community aged care workers. Meta-narrative review principles included: planning, searching, mapping, appraisal/synthesis, and recommendations. Six meta-narratives were identified, consolidated into three areas: person-centered and culturally competent health care; human rights approach; and psychological approaches to diversity training. The meta-narratives highlighted diversity within diversity and a move toward intersectionality. Meta-narratives were linked through concepts of inclusion, reduction in bias, and access and equity healthcare policy and practice. Training for community aged care workers is challenging, with this synthesis providing new understandings of diversity training, paramount for provision of responsive and equitable health care for older people.
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Educational Gerontology
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43
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7
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Meyer, C; Ogrin, R; Al-Zubaidi, H; Appannah, A; McMillan, S; Barrett, E; Browning, C, Diversity training for community aged care workers: An interdisciplinary meta-narrative review, Educational Gerontology, 2017, 43 (7), pp. 365-378