Scoping Review: Culturally Appropriate Care for Arab Elders in Long-Term Care Settings.
Najat Abdulhadi H Alhaizan, Sanetta Henrietta Johanna du Toit
PMID 40801281WHAT IT FOUND
No study has yet looked at culturally appropriate care for migrant Arab Elders in residential aged care homes.
The 13 papers found cover culturally and linguistically diverse residents broadly, and the reviewers point to co-design with Elders and families as the untested next step.
Key findings
01Of the 13 included publications, none specifically studied migrant Arab Elders living in residential aged care homes.
02Cultural competence was the most commonly addressed concept in the included literature (6 publications), followed by person-centred care (4); meaningful engagement appeared in only one publication, alongside person-centred care.
03The reviewers' own recommendation is co-design, involving Elders and their families in planning and designing services, which occupational therapy is positioned to deliver.
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What it does not show
No publication in the review actually studied migrant Arab Elders in residential aged care homes, so what is reported comes from other populations or from opinion pieces. Only five of the 13 publications were set in a residential aged care home; one reported the setting only as health care organisations and others did not specify it. Three of the 13 pieces are opinion pieces, offering expert views rather than study findings. Only peer-reviewed studies and opinion pieces were searched; unpublished or grey literature was left out. The reviewers widened their search to Muslim Elders and to studies where only some participants were Arab, because nothing matched the original question.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest and received no financial support for the research, authorship or publication of the article.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the practices listed here as tested for migrant Arab Elders. None of the 13 included papers studied that group, and several of the recommendations come from opinion pieces or from research on culturally and linguistically diverse residents in general.
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