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Aging Field Focus Blog: Indigenous views on Dementia and Memory Loss in Older Age
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Aging Field Focus Blog. There was an error in this gadget. Friday, April 15, 2011. Indigenous views on Dementia and Memory Loss in Older Age. The study by Hulko et al, (2010) outlines a number of different view about dementia and memory loss as explained by Indigenous Elders from BC:. Memory loss was seen as a natural part of life by the broader community but was not necessarily welcomed by the Elders who were experiencing it for themselves. (p. 327). So what can we learn from this information? Some had ...
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Silvia Straka's SWRK4200 Class Blog: Welcome to Field Focus Aging and this blog!
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Silvia Straka's SWRK4200 Class Blog. Sunday, September 19, 2010. Welcome to Field Focus Aging and this blog! This is the first year I am using blogging as a major means of communication for a course. For many of you, it will be your first ever venture into the world of blogging. Knowing that most of you are Facebook users, you will see that it's not too big a stretch, since both blogs and Facebook are different types of social media. So welcome. and I hope you enjoy the course! Posted by Silvia Straka.
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Aging Field Focus Blog: February 2011
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Aging Field Focus Blog. There was an error in this gadget. Tuesday, February 15, 2011. The Resilience of Aborignal Grandparents. In aging one of the topics that has come up time and time again has been the concept of care giving, particularly the topic of caregivers providing care for their elderly family members and how this often leads to caregiver burden and burnout. Because the topic of care giving is such an important one I chose to further investigate this topic for the purpose of this blog entry.
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Aging Field Focus Blog: September 2010
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Aging Field Focus Blog. There was an error in this gadget. Monday, September 20, 2010. Hello and Welcome to Our Blog! We are a group of social work students in our last year of bachelor studies. We are very excited to begin our blog for our Field Focus Class in aging. We are excited to begin reading and learning about our topic of Indigenous people in Aging. We are also looking forward to reading and learning from our fellow classmates blogs as well. Our group consists of the following members:. Please c...
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Aging Field Focus Blog: October 2010
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Aging Field Focus Blog. There was an error in this gadget. Tuesday, October 19, 2010. Aging Aboriginal People- Brief introduction to Health Status and Demographics. So now, how can we begin to introduce issues related to aging Aboriginal people unless we first have a basis for how these particular people are viewed within their own culture and also the broader Canadian context? How does this population differ? How are they the same? How diverse is this population? Is it due to biological factors? Wilson,...
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Aging Field Focus Blog: The Under Representation of Older Aboriginal Adults’ Experiences in the Upcoming Elections
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Aging Field Focus Blog. There was an error in this gadget. Friday, April 15, 2011. The Under Representation of Older Aboriginal Adults’ Experiences in the Upcoming Elections. The federal government, focused on fiscal restraint and reforming the administrative processes of Indian Act. On April 15, 2011). My personal experience of working in a personal care home has taught me that during election time the candidates come to the care home. Why is that? In Canadian society senior citizens are the largest gro...
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Aging Field Focus Blog: Truth and Reconciliation
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Aging Field Focus Blog. There was an error in this gadget. Friday, April 15, 2011. CBC News, 2008). The Canadian government formed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as part of the court approved Residential School Settlement Agreement. It was negotiated between legal counsel for former students, legal counsel for churches, the Government of Canada, the Assembly of First Nations and other Aboriginal organizations (CBC News, 2008). It is an official independent body that will provide former students ...
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Aging Field Focus Blog: March 2011
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Aging Field Focus Blog. There was an error in this gadget. Sunday, March 27, 2011. Indigenous Perspectives on Mental Health Service Delivery: What needs to change. During the process of researching topics for this blog I have tried to think of stories and experiences from my field placement in mental health that I would be able to incorporate into my entries. The more I thought about this, the more I began to question why this is. So why is this? One of the first possible explanations that could explain ...
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Aging Field Focus Blog: A call for blended supports in Remote Aboriginal Communities
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Aging Field Focus Blog. There was an error in this gadget. Monday, April 18, 2011. A call for blended supports in Remote Aboriginal Communities. Recently there was an article in the Winnipeg Free Press about Joe McLeod, who is a 70 year old man who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Joe, who is originally from Pine Creek First Nation had to leave his home community because there weren’t enough community supports in the community to deal with the level of care that was required for Joe. They believe that the ideal...
