The nursing care to the elderly people: a reflexion according to the transcultural theory of Leiniger

This article aims to reflect on elderly nursing care in the light of Madeleine Leininger’s Transcultural Theory as well as to suggest a care model. The theory values the importance of cultural factors over human beings, and that their absence in nursing care planning will bring about unrelated actio...

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Main Authors: Janei Rabello de Souza, Ivete Palmira Sanson Zagonel, Mariluci Alves Maftum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará 2007-06-01
Series:Rev Rene
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/5345
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author Janei Rabello de Souza
Ivete Palmira Sanson Zagonel
Mariluci Alves Maftum
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description This article aims to reflect on elderly nursing care in the light of Madeleine Leininger’s Transcultural Theory as well as to suggest a care model. The theory values the importance of cultural factors over human beings, and that their absence in nursing care planning will bring about unrelated actions to individual’s cultural reality. Caring elders in an incongruent way, regarding their patterns and beliefs, may give rise to cultural clashes, frustration, stress and moral and ethical concerns. We point out nurses’ need to make use of that theory in order to provide elderly people with care permeated by valuing cultural diversities.   
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spelling doaj-art-d06edf5dfddf4e6fb3d3ac10a6858cd32025-08-21T13:53:03ZengUniversidade Federal do CearáRev Rene1517-38522175-67832007-06-0183The nursing care to the elderly people: a reflexion according to the transcultural theory of LeinigerJanei Rabello de SouzaIvete Palmira Sanson ZagonelMariluci Alves MaftumThis article aims to reflect on elderly nursing care in the light of Madeleine Leininger’s Transcultural Theory as well as to suggest a care model. The theory values the importance of cultural factors over human beings, and that their absence in nursing care planning will bring about unrelated actions to individual’s cultural reality. Caring elders in an incongruent way, regarding their patterns and beliefs, may give rise to cultural clashes, frustration, stress and moral and ethical concerns. We point out nurses’ need to make use of that theory in order to provide elderly people with care permeated by valuing cultural diversities.    https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/5345Transcultural nursingNursing careHealth od the elderlyGeriatric nursing.
spellingShingle Janei Rabello de Souza
Ivete Palmira Sanson Zagonel
Mariluci Alves Maftum
The nursing care to the elderly people: a reflexion according to the transcultural theory of Leiniger
Rev Rene
Transcultural nursing
Nursing care
Health od the elderly
Geriatric nursing.
title The nursing care to the elderly people: a reflexion according to the transcultural theory of Leiniger
title_full The nursing care to the elderly people: a reflexion according to the transcultural theory of Leiniger
title_fullStr The nursing care to the elderly people: a reflexion according to the transcultural theory of Leiniger
title_full_unstemmed The nursing care to the elderly people: a reflexion according to the transcultural theory of Leiniger
title_short The nursing care to the elderly people: a reflexion according to the transcultural theory of Leiniger
title_sort nursing care to the elderly people a reflexion according to the transcultural theory of leiniger
topic Transcultural nursing
Nursing care
Health od the elderly
Geriatric nursing.
url https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/5345
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