Culturally Competent Health Care for Foreign Elderly Immigrants in Action
- Jun 24, 2022
- 1 min read
Presenter: Erin Park, Psychology, Global Public Health Scholars
For my practicum project, I volunteered at the MGH Adult Medical Day care Center. MGH Adult Medical Day Care Center is a culturally competent adult medical daycare center with a mostly elderly Korean immigrant population. During my time there, I assisted the staff in caring for the patients, keeping the facility clean, providing health monitoring and medical services, setting up various activities and games, distributing and cleaning after meals, and translating. Through my experience there, I was able to observe first-hand the daily struggles faced by the elderly immigrant population in the US. I was also able to see how culturally competent care can resolve these problems and ease their lives after retirement.
This truly lands in my lap at the end of the day: an elderly immigrant, scared, confused met with warmth and understanding. That is the power my cultural competency brings to the table. Behind the scenes, smooth urgent care RCM helps these urgent care centers run smoothly and enables caregivers to concentrate on people rather than paperwork. High-quality care begins with a heart and a system.