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Accessing Dementia Services by BAME Communities
The BarriersJanice Le Tellier
Operations Manager
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Increasing Numbers
Dementia UK Report 2007 - 11,392
Updated estimates Runnymede
2011 – 25,0002026 - 50,0002051 - 172,000
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Increasing Numbers
• BAME population traditionally had a younger demographic than the majority white population.
• 2011 census – growing proportion of BAME is now aged over 65 with a particular growth in 75+ age group
• Presents challenges for commissioners of services
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Health Issues
• Smoking is higher amongst Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi men, and high use of chewing tobacco amongst South Asian communities
• People from South Asian population have the highest risk of developing coronary heart disease
• Prevalence of type 2 diabetes is 3-5 times higher in the black African-Caribbean population than the white European population in the UK
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Barriers to accessing services
• Awareness and stigma• Beliefs• Language Barriers
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Barriers to accessing services
• Close Knit Communities and their perspective on caring for families
• Lack of Appropriate Services• Issues for Health Practitioners
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Awareness and Stigma• Early signs are just perceived as normal ageing
and people may not realise it is a progressive illness
• There are strong associations with “getting old” or mental illness
• There is no term for dementia in South Asian languages
• Amongst the Chinese, the term to describe dementia is very derogatory
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Awareness and StigmaThis disease never existed in our community. Nobody would think this is a health problem. People in my community would say the person has gone mad or lost his mind”
(Pakistani carer)
“I often hear in my community that somebody has done something to her like cast an evil
spell” (Caribbean service provider)
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Beliefs
There can be a belief that dementia is caused by:-
• Spirit possession
• It is a punishment
• It is “just in the mind”
• Having dementia in the family can affect marriage prospects
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Beliefs
There is an expression:-
“Once a man twice a child”
This originates in the Caribbean
There is a counterpart saying in South Asia
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Language Barriers
• Older people are less likely to speak English
• The ability to speak and/or learn a second language diminishes
• Reverting to mother tongue
• Problems with translating
• Lack of appropriate terminology
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Close Knit Communities and the perspective on caring for families
• Fear and embarrassment
• Damaged pride if you have to ask for help
• Difficulty in talking about it in the community
• Concealment of symptoms which often means a late presentation
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Close Knit Communities and the perspective on caring for families
• It is the family’s responsibility to care
• It is a religious duty
• Community traditions or expectations
• The result is sometimes that family members’ health suffers
• Families need support too!
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Close Knit Communities and the perspective on caring for families
The experience of dementia might be new as many people who migrated to the UK did not grow up around older people
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Close Knit Communities and the perspective on caring for families
• Many families from all communities would like to care for elderly family members
• Black Caribbean and Irish communities - acceptance that this is not always possible
• Indian, Chinese and Pakistani communities - strong community pressure for children to look after parents
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Close Knit Communities and the perspective on caring for families
• “I do feel the pressure. If I said to my father, ‘I want you to go into a home,’ he would be very upset and I would be made to feel guilty. And the Chinese community would think I am heartless. They would say you are neglecting your parents”
• (Chinese carer)
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Access to servicesFamilies and individuals may not seek support
• Desire to care for the person themselves
• Community pressure
• No appropriate services
• Experience of racism and hostility
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Lack of culturally sensitive services
Support available does not always address needs relating to faith or culture
“We just sat there on our own all day. Other people were dancing and singing. We had a cup of tea and in the evening they dropped us home.
There was no one there we could talk to”
(Indian carer)
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• Many of the challenges faced are similar to those faced by the white British population
• Some of the causes are different and require a different response
• The impact of life history - we all have our unique life history that makes us who we are today – where we are born, what we eat, the language we speak, work, our family life – supporting this in someone with dementia
Life history of people with dementia from BAME groups
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Everyone is Unique
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• Late presentations – late diagnosis• Are standard diagnostic tools
appropriate• Lack of cultural awareness and
religious beliefs• Lack of understanding of health
expectations
Issues for Health Practitioners
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• Get accurate data• Share information and good
practice• Train staff in cultural issues• Get to know your community• Undertake intergenerational
work
Some Possible Solutions
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• Be proactive and creative• Try a different approach - “worries about getting older”• Talk about associated conditions
such as hypertension and link it to dementia
• Use other mediums – cooking, music, reminiscence
Some Possible Solutions
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Opportunities for providing support
• Large ethnic minority voluntary sector providing health and welfare support
• Benefits of linking ethnic minority community groups and local specialist dementia services
• Specialist ethnic minority dementia services • Making small changes to a mainstream
service to make services appropriate
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• Use outreach and support• Recognise there are communities
within communities• Try taster sessions• Use community venues• Make some services specific –
Wolverhampton cafes
Engage with the Community
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Opportunities for providing support
• My wife comes alive when she goes to the Asian day centre. They play Hindi songs from old films. She meets other women and talks to them in Punjabi and they talk about their lives in India. She is a different person there”
• Indian carer)“
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• Work with volunteers and community representatives
• Dementia Friends• Health Champions• Religious figures – AS Faith
Healing Training for Imans who then delivered information in sermons
Engage with the Community
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BAME communities also need to take some ownership of the issues that affect them:-•Get involved in consultations•Challenge the hard to reach label•Attend events such as this one
Getting involved
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• Production of local DVD• Delivering services in a range of
locations• Specific services – - Information programmes for South Asian Community - Asian Singing for the Brain
What is the Alzheimer’s Society doing?
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• Connecting Communities Project focussing on raising awareness of dementia within BME communities across London
• Dementia Guide in various languages• Fact sheets in various languages• “Worried about your Memory” in other
languages
What is the Alzheimer’s Society doing?
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‘I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’
Maya Angelou 2005
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‘When you’ve met one person with Alzheimer’s Disease, you’ve met one person with Alzheimer’s Disease.’ Laurenhue
2001
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Knowledge is power with respect to diagnosis, giving those affected and their families an understanding of what is happening and the ability to make choices themselves
(National Dementia Strategy, 2009)
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Chinese proverb:
“Tell me and I’ll forget; Show me and I may remember, Involve me and I’ll understand.”
Inclusion