This learning module, which is part of a three-block series intended to help human service workers develop the skills necessary to solve the problems encountered in their daily contact with elderly clients of different cultural backgrounds, deals with communication and adjustment from the standpoint of the special cultural background of German-speaking Canadians. The first two sections deal with the effect that cultural background has on the outlook and behavior of older German-speaking adults and outline the module's general objectives. The following topics are discussed in the next four sections: verbal and nonverbal communication practices and difficulties that are especially common among German-speaking Canadians, the cultural behavior of people who must adjust to disability, the cultural behaviors surrounding reaction and adjustment to a change in living environment, and the cultural behaviors surrounding death and dying. Ways in which human services workers can help German-speaking Canadians adjust to a disability or change in living environment are described. A list of selected readings and descriptions of two pertinent films are appended. (MN)