title: Challenges to culturally sensitive care for elderly chinese patients: a first-generation Chinese-American perspective.
abstract: Physicians and medical institutions in the United States are placing increasing emphasis on providing culturally sensitive care for patients, such as implementing a Confucian family-based model of medical decision making when caring for elderly Chinese patients. In this article, I articulate various reasons why deferring to the family is not a guarantee of culturally sensitive care, particularly when family members are first-generation Chinese-Americans. Nonetheless, I offer several suggestions to help physicians, medical institutions, and family members to provide more culturally sensitive care for elderly Chinese patients.
authors.affiliation: St. Patrick's Seminary and University in Menlo Park. karen.chan@stpatricksseminary.org
authors.forename: Karen C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Chan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001213:Asian; D032903:Confucianism; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics*; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D028663:Ethical Theory; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States