Abstracts
Abstract
Access to health and social services in one’s official language of choice is an important component of quality and safety of care for seniors. Access can be fragmented, even in the context of legislation guaranteeing the right to receive such services, and in areas with a higher proportion of bilingual providers. Using a community-based participatory approach, we identified mechanisms promoting or impeding the clinical integration of health and social French language services intended for seniors living in two Canadian Francophone minority communities. Thirteen recommendations highlight the possibility for new initiatives to promote a continuum of French language health and social services in a minority context, involving collaboration among a variety of actors at all levels of our analytical framework: service trajectory (providers); francophone communities; organizational; political and regulatory; and symbolic (values) structures.
Keywords:
- seniors,
- linguistic minorities,
- service integration,
- health and social services,
- continuity of care
Résumé
L’accès aux services sociaux et de santé dans la langue officielle de son choix est un aspect important de la qualité et de la sécurité des soins destinés aux aînés. L’accès à ces services demeure fragmenté même dans des provinces ayant des lois qui garantissent des services en français et des régions bénéficiant d’un nombre élevé de fournisseurs de soins bilingues. Une étude participative communautaire a permis de dégager des mécanismes facilitant ou limitant l’intégration clinique de services sociaux et de santé offerts en français aux aînés de deux communautés francophones en situation minoritaire du Canada. Treize recommandations font ressortir la possibilité de nouvelles initiatives pour favoriser un continuum de services sociaux et de santé en français en contexte linguistique minoritaire par la collaboration des divers acteurs oeuvrant au sein des structures décrites dans notre cadre d’analyse: trajectoire de services, communautés francophones, structure organisationnelle, structure politique et règlementaire, et structure symbolique (valeurs).
Mots-clés :
- aînés,
- minorité linguistique,
- intégration des services,
- services sociaux et de santé,
- continuité des soins
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank all research participants for their valuable contributions, all those in Manitoba and eastern Ontario who worked in data collection logistics, and Advisory Committee members for their involvement in the co-construction of the guidelines.
The authors thank ARIMA and the CNFS (Université d’Ottawa and Université de Saint-Boniface sections) for their financial support.
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