HCA 480
April 19, 2016
Arabs in long term care
What is long term care? Long term care is when a person requires someone else to help him with his physical or emotional needs over an extended period of time, this is long-term care. This help may be required for many of the activities or needs that healthy, active people take for granted and may include such things as: walking, bathing, dressing, using the bathroom, helping with incontinence, managing Pain, preventing unsafe behavior, preventing wandering etc. (Day 2016).
There are over 200 million Arabs worldwide, to be an Arab, is not to come from a particular race or lineage. Arabic culture is very moderate and implies the same when long term care comes into place. Arabs are extremely family oriented people who enjoy, family time, celebrations, traditions and occasions. As life moves on old age takes place in everyone’s life. As an adult in an Arab culture, the senior will receive proper care, attention, and all the needs from there loved one. In Arab culture people do not prefer to keep their family members who are old in nursing home, long term facilities and senior home. Families like to keep the adults at home and prefer nurses to come to their homes to help them, clean, bath, change, and provide medical assistance.
"The strong family relationship and the influence of religion and culture force Arab family members especially women to respect and provide an obligatory care particularly for disabled elder people (Mohammed, 2010). Long term care in Arab culture is looked up with respect, honor and dignity. In our busy lives and daily routine people still take time out of their lives and give full attentions to their loved one. They feel more satisfied taking care of the individual then handing there responsible to someone else. If they need medical assistance then obviously the individual will be taken to the hospital for treatment. If long term care has to be done for the patients then it’s the children who takes care. In Long term care is provided with quality of care and quality of life in Arab culture.
Keeping the adults at home and provided all the facilities to the adults is a way to show respect, care and love. Families take full responsibilities of those adults who cannot take care of themselves. As young children’s parents always teach their children to take care of them when they are old just the way, their parents took care of them when they were babies. This has nothing to do with religion aspects, it’s all about the culture, boundaries and how an individual has been raised.
“From 1965 to 2010 ‘average’ life expectancy in the region increased from 48.7 years to 70.4 years” (Hussein, 2012). In the Arab region the like expectancy increased because people take care of their parents, grandparents and other family member by themselves. When a patient is in their own home and he/she is getting a great treatment then they recover faster and there life expectancy is longer.
Medical technologies and medical assistance is not very advanced in the Middle East. Many of the people are not qualified enough to treat patients but they are working in hospitals, which is a corruption and political issues. Although people do not trust to leave there loved once in such facilities for long term care. They give long term care to their loved one by themselves, it can be very challenging and hard but due to the cultural aspects an individual does it has his duty and not an obligation
Long term care in Arab cultures is not a problem for individuals but “ documented volunteers constitute only 1% of the long term care workforce (estimated at 2 million workers)” (Hussein, 2012). Being short with documented volunteers in long-term care, they only have 20,000 volunteers. People rather keep there loved once in long-term care facilities due to other important priorities and cultural aspects. People don’t keep their old and sick parents inside of their home and take care of them. The culture all over the world is very unique and different from one another. Every cultures hold a great value and responsibility of their background and upbringing.
Reference
Hussein, S. (2012, December). Long-term care needs in Arab World. Retrieved April 19, 2016, from https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/policy-institute/scwru/pubs/2013/conf/hussein20dec12.pdf
Day, T. (2016). About Long Term Care. Retrieved April 19, 2016, from http://www.longtermcarelink.net/eldercare/long_term_care.htm
Mohammed, H. (2010). Evaluation of Home Caregiving Program. Retrieved April 21, 2016
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