Health Literacy and Patient Activation: Two Key Components of Patient Centered Care
Course: #37868Level: Intermediate 0.5 Hours 44 Reviews
Health literacy is a critical aspect of patient centered care, but it often flies under the radar of many hearing care professionals. In this podcast, Barbara Weinstein, esteemed professor at the City University of New York, sits down with Brian Taylor to discuss the multidimensional aspects of health literacy and how hearing care professionals can improve the patient activation process by applying various health literacy principles.
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to define health literacy.
- After this course, participants will be able to define the patient activation process.
- After this course, participants will be able to identify the key components of health literacy as it relates to clinical audiology.
Course created on July 15, 2022
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-20 Minutes | What is health literacy and how does it impact the patient activation process? |
| 20-30 Minutes | How can hearing care professionals improve health literacy and the patient activation process? |
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Barbara Weinstein
PhD
Professor, City University of New York
Dr. Weinstein is a professor at the City University of New York. An expert in hearing loss in older adults, Barbara E. Weinstein earned her Ph.D. in audiology with a minor in geriatrics from Columbia University. Weinstein has authored several textbooks, the most recent being Geriatric Audiology (2012). The author of close to one hundred articles and book chapters, she speaks nationally and internationally on a wide range of topics ranging from social isolation and hearing loss in the elderly, to senile dementia and hearing loss, to hearing aids and hearing health promotion and screening. She is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA), an Oyer Fellow, and a recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award for the New York State Speech Language Hearing Association. She served as a panelist on the National Institutes of Health consensus panel on cochlear implants.
Weinstein developed the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly and its companion version, the Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults, the most widely used scales to screen adults and older adults for hearing loss, as well as to measure outcomes. She is the recipient of local, state, and federal grants in excess of $750,000 on aging, workforce education, counseling older adults, and outreach.
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Brian Taylor
AuD
Brian Taylor is a Doctor of Audiology and Senior Director of Audiology for Signia. He is also the editor of Audiology Practices, a quarterly journal of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology, editor-at-large for Hearing Health and Technology Matters and adjunct instructor at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Taylor has authored several peer reviewed articles and textbooks and is a highly sought out lecturer. Brian has nearly 30 years of experience as both a clinician, business manager and university instructor.
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