tailieunhanh - Meeting the Health Care Needs of Elderly Métis Women in Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan

Due to decreasing muscle tone the jowls may begin to sag, leading to a "double chin". Nose may lengthens slightly and may look more prominent. The ears may lengthen slightly in some women. The eyebrows and eyelashes become gray. The skin around the eyelids becomes loose and wrinkled, often making a "crow's feet" pattern. The eye socket loses some of its fat pads, making the eyes look sunken and limiting eye movement. The lower eyelids may appear baggy, and drooping eyelids are fairly common. The outer surface of the eye (cornea) may develop a grayish-white ring called arcus corneus or. | Meeting the Health Care Needs of Elderly Metis Women in Buffalo Narrows Saskatchewan Meeting the Health Care Needs of Elderly Metis Women in Buffalo Narrows Saskatchewan Brigette Krieg MSW PhD c Prairie Women s Health Centre of Excellence University of Regina Diane Martz PhD Prairie Women s Health Centre of Excellence and Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluation Research Unit University of Saskatchewan. ABSTRACT There is limited data including health data specific to the Métis population in Canada. As a result the health issues and concerns of Métis communities in particular Métis women have largely been ignored in health research and in program and policy development. To address this dearth of information a community-based research committee made up of Métis women initiated the Buffalo Narrows Métis Women s Health Research Project. The goals of the project were to investigate the health care needs of elderly women and their caregivers in a northern and remote Saskatchewan Métis community. The project looked at barriers to health care service access in terms of accessibility affordability availability acceptability and accommodation. Results showed that elderly Métis women experienced multiple interconnected barriers to accessing health care services making it difficult to isolate one variable as being more important than another. However the Métis women interviewed did identify a number of recommendations to help in meeting the complex service needs of elderly women in the community. If implemented these recommendations would help to ease the pressure put on extended family members who act as informal caregivers to elderly residents as well as giving elderly patients more independence and improving elderly women s access to primary health care services. KEYWORDS Métis women s health elderly women s health remote communities access to health services Saskatchewan Participatory Action Research PAR INTRODUCTION The Buffalo Narrows Metis Women s Health Research .