I See You: Caregiver Health Literacy and Health Education (Recorded Webinar)
Presented by Amber Richardson
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This course is a recording of a previously hosted live webinar event. Polling and question submission features are not available for this recording. Format and structure may differ from those of standard Medbridge courses.
Informal caregivers are increasingly important in the landscape of healthcare across all settings. The demands of caregiving are vast, and as caregivers navigate increasingly complex medical systems, they require customized education that is informed by their health literacy needs and considers how their needs and the needs of the care recipient interact. Caregivers face unique challenges and demands in supporting the wellness of the person they care for in addition to their own wellness. This caregiver-focused webinar will help healthcare professionals, including PTs, OTs, SLPs, RNs, and related fields, to effectively communicate with and support caregivers, address their health literacy needs, empower them to provide high-quality care to care recipients, and reduce caregiving burden.
Learning Objectives
- Highlight the impact of and potential barriers to health literate education
- Compare the roles of the caregiver in the care recipient’s environment and the care recipient in the caregiver’s environment
- Interpret the impact of appropriate health education to caregiver and care recipient outcomes
- Identify three patient populations that have physical and mental health impacts on caregivers
- Apply evidence related to addressing health literacy needs to caregivers
- Outline two practical strategies that have potential to build caregiver confidence and efficacy
Meet your instructor
Amber Richardson
Amber Richardson currently serves as a community relations manager for Pate Neuro Rehabilitation. She received her Master of Occupational Therapy and Bachelor of Science in Health Studies degrees from Texas Woman’s University. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist, Ostomy Management Specialist, and serves on the…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Foundational Highlights of Health Literacy
Learners will define health literacy, briefly explore its domains, and highlight the importance, and potential considerations of health health-literate education for caregivers.
2. Considering Caregiver and Care Recipient Roles and Environments
The kaleidoscope of dimensions in caregiving and care-receiving provides multiple opportunities to promote health literacy. Using ecological models, learners will explore the contributions of caregivers to the environments of care recipients and identify factors of caregivers and their own environments that influence their health education opportunities and barriers.
3. The Impact of Caregiver Education and Patient Populations
Caregivers may provide physical, cognitive, social, and other support to care recipients who come from diverse patient populations. This chapter will teach learners the needs of caregivers for specific populations and the impact this can have for caregivers and care recipients.
4. Building Caregiver Confidence and Efficacy
This chapter will teach learners to prioritize the caregiving journey and health educational needs specific to caregivers’ roles and preferences. In addition, learners will plan education that is considerate of health literacy and is culturally relevant. Finally, learners will apply health-literate education to increase opportunities to reduce caregiver stress, improve caregiver efficacy, and decrease caregiving burden.
5. Question and Answer Session
This chapter is a viewer-submitted question and answer session facilitated by Amber Richardson.