Understanding Person-Centered Care for Older Adults in Six Developing Countries/Regions: Ghana: [episode 5]
Recorded On: 03/18/2024
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Ghana: Understanding Person-Centered Care for Older Adults [episode 5]
The impact of population aging is universally recognized and has been extensively studied in wealthier, developed nations. But we know much less about how aging is experienced in low- and middle-income countries and how developing countries are responding to the current challenges created by the aging of their populations. The rapid rate of population aging in many developing countries—fueled by falling fertility rates and a shift in the predominance of chronic diseases rather than acute and infectious illnesses—has left little time to anticipate and prepare for the consequences of aging populations.
The GSA Interest Group on Common Data Elements for International Research in Residential Long-term Care has developed a limited podcast series to provide insights into how culture, competing population health priorities, political conflict, and resource limitations influence older adults, their families, and paid/formal caregivers in six nations along a trajectory of national development, including Brazil, China, East Jerusalem, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Thailand.
This podcast limited series is supported by the GSA Innovation Fund.
Barbara Bowers, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA (Moderator)
Emerita Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison, School of Nursing
Founding Director of UW–Madison School of Nursing’s Center for Aging Research and Education
Jing Wang, PhD, RN, FAAN (Moderator)
Assistant Professor
University of New Hampshire, College of Health and Human Services
Diana Abudu-Birresborn, PhD
Health Systems Leadership and Administration
Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
Diana Abudu-Birresborn, PhD, is a doctoral graduate of the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, with a specialization in Health Systems Leadership and Administration and a collaborative specialization in ageing from the Institute of Life Course and Ageing, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Abudu-Birresborn has more than a decade of nursing experience in rural and urban communities of Ghana. Her doctoral work focused on the preparation of nursing students to care for older adults in Ghana. Specifically, she examined nursing students' self-efficacy in caring for older adults in acute care settings, using a mixed-method approach.