About 40% of the world population has problems with access to, understanding of, and applying information about their health and health care. This is called Health illiteracy and results in high health backlogs.
In this workshop we will illuminate on the problems that patients and their caregivers experience in dealing with health illiteracy. We will discuss groups at risk, highlight low incontinence literacy and discuss patient’s interest in use of electronic applications. We will offer tools to help you better recognise such patients and give examples of adjusted patient information materials to ensure better communication and optimal information transferral. We welcome discussion of experiences of delegates internationally.
Learning Objectives - - Explain health illiteracy and the problems this may cause.
- Review risks for low health literacy and highlight evidence about low incontinence literacy.
- Discuss barriers to improving incontinence literacy.
- Provide tools to better recognise the patients with low health literacy.
- Show examples of adjusted patient information materials to ensure better communication and optimal information transferral.
- Discuss experiences and approaches of delegates internationally to improve health/incontinence literacy.
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