The purpose of the CASA partnership with SGEC is to increase the competencies of SJSU students in ethnogeriatrics, that is, to understand and address culturally specific issues that arise during the course of providing health care services to older adults. The training is embedded in the curriculum of the following programs of study at CASA: Nursing, Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, and Social Work.
Issues related to working with culturally diverse elders tend not to be addressed in typical curricula used to train health care providers. This can lead to disparities in health care and health outcomes for diverse groups of elders. Ethnogeriatrics is a term used to describe ethnically and culturally relevant education and practice among those who provide health care services to older people.
Over the years, CASA faculty members have been instrumental in generating knowledge in ethnogeriatrics through the development and dissemination of research articles, ethnogeriatric curricula, and presentations on a variety of topics including:
Click on the following links below to see archives of some of the seminal reviews done by SGEC faculty
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