Full course description
About the course
The course has been developed within the Skills4 Health Literacy project which is an EU-funded ERASMUS+ project in which universities in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, and the Global Health Literacy Academy in Denmark collaborate. More information on the project is available on its website: Skills 4 Health Literacy | Karolinska Institutet
Content and learning outcomes
The course will introduce health literacy, cognitive disorder, and cognitive health. The course also aims to illustrate working with health literacy in the encounter with people with (risk of) cognitive disorder and their relatives. Examples of learning materials are pre-recorded online lectures, films, written articles, documents and web pages and examples of learning activities are watching and reading the learning materials and reflecting on the content by doing MENTI and PADLET exercises. Quizzes are used to assess your progress in the course and to judge whether or not you are passing the course.
After completing the course, you are expected to be able to:
- distinguish between various forms and dimensions of health literacy.
- identify what affects health literacy and why health literacy is important to consider in care and social care targeting people with cognitive impairment.
- assess health literacy on individual and organisational level.
- identify and differentiate between different cognitive disorders based on given literature
- define known risk factors for cognitive disorders and identify the relationship between lifestyle factors and brain health.
- point out opportunities and challenges that health professionals have when working with people with (at risk of) cognitive disorder.
- identify how individuals' culture, abilities, and prerequisites can affect communication in care and social care targeting people with cognitive impairment.
- identify cognitive and social difficulties and challenges related to cognitive impairment.
- critically assess popular science information about health and cognitive impairment.
- identify which health literacy-friendly and person-centered strategies and methods are appropriate in communication with people with cognitive impairments and their relatives.
- list services in healthcare and the society that are beneficial for people with cognitive impairments.
Structure of the course
The course runs online and consists of a short course introduction (unit 0) and four learning units. Units 1-3 are estimated to take approximately 10-15 hours each to complete. Unit 4 is estimated to take approximately 20-30 hours to complete. The course is asynchronous and you will access the learning materials and do the learning activities in the units at your convenience.
Contacts
Josefin Wångdahl, course coordinator: josefin.wangdahl@ki.se