Research Partnership Rather than Research on the Amish

Over the next four years, myself, the community Elder, and his wife and 13 additional research participants would work together to explore the question “what is the lived experience caring for an Amish older adult and your interactions with Western healthcare providers”. The time spent sharing food...

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Published in:Narrative inquiry in bioethics 2017, Vol.7 (1), p.7-9
Main Author: Farrar, Helen M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aging
Amish
Amish culture
Bioethics
Caregivers
Communication
Community
Community-Based Participatory Research
Cooperative Behavior
Culture
Delivery of Health Care
Food
Hospitals
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Interviews
Nursing
Older people
Research Personnel
Residence Characteristics
Studies
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Summary:Over the next four years, myself, the community Elder, and his wife and 13 additional research participants would work together to explore the question “what is the lived experience caring for an Amish older adult and your interactions with Western healthcare providers”. The time spent sharing food taught me to relax and enjoy the time spent talking about shared interests, listening to their stories with an open heart and mind, careful to ask for clarifications when I didn’t understand, when I needed translation of the low–German or Dutch words that would slip into their stories. An aspect of the study that I did not anticipate, and fuels the research partnership we now have, is the lack of understanding of the Amish culture from Western healthcare providers. The research discussed in this article was funded by the D.W. Reynolds Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence at the University of Oklahoma, Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing and the Jonas Foundation.
ISSN:2157-1732
2157-1740
2157-1740
DOI:10.1353/nib.2017.0003