Diabetes Atrial Fibrillation Caregiver health Mental health There is an opportunity to fund additional Caregiver Lunch and Learn workshops. Your support will enable Caregiver Action Network to conduct a customized workshop to reach 60 family caregivers in a community of your choice. Objectives: Provide family caregivers and patients with the knowledge and skills to become stronger team-based decision-makers. patients and caregivers how to communicate their personal goals, values, and preferences to their doctors in order to arrive at treatment options that will be clinically meaningful to them as patients and caregivers and in line with their personal situation and health goals. Increase familiarity with, and expansion of the ability of patients and caregivers to use comparative effectiveness research to make important treatment decisions. Teach family caregivers, in particular, how to become more integrated in, and bring their valuable input to, the shared decision making process between their loved ones and their health professionals. The Workshop: There are four modules to the 4-hour workshop: Tools: How to use tools such as a Medication List and a Patient File, and how to prepare for doctor appointments and emergency room visits. Patient/Family Centered Goals: What patient and family centered goals are and how to determine them. Comparative Effective Research: What comparative effectiveness research is and why it matters. Includes an activity trial participants role play a scenario of seeking out information on various interventions for their loved one’s diagnosis by presenting an example illness with two possible therapies, a clinical option, and no treatment at all as means to deal with the illness. Shared Decision Making: How to integrate patient and family goals with comparative effectiveness research and use this to advance shared decision making with the doctor and health care professionals (e.g., asking about alternative treatments and new therapies).
Diabetes Caregiver health Atrial Fibrillation Mental health There is an opportunity to fund additional Caregiver Lunch and Learn workshops. Your support will enable Caregiver Action Network to conduct a customized workshop to reach 60 family caregivers in a community of your choice. Objectives: Provide family caregivers and patients with the knowledge and skills to become stronger team-based decision-makers. patients and caregivers how to communicate their personal goals, values, and preferences to their doctors in order to arrive at treatment options that will be clinically meaningful to them as patients and caregivers and in line with their personal situation and health goals. Increase familiarity with, and expansion of the ability of patients and caregivers to use comparative effectiveness research to make important treatment decisions. Teach family caregivers, in particular, how to become more integrated in, and bring their valuable input to, the shared decision making process between their loved ones and their health professionals. The Workshop: There are four modules to the 4-hour workshop: Tools: How to use tools such as a Medication List and a Patient File, and how to prepare for doctor appointments and emergency room visits. Patient/Family Centered Goals: What patient and family centered goals are and how to determine them. Comparative Effective Research: What comparative effectiveness research is and why it matters. Includes an activity participants role play a scenario of seeking out information on various interventions for their loved one’s diagnosis by presenting an example illness with two possible therapies, a clinical trial option, and no treatment at all as means to deal with the illness. Shared Decision Making: How to integrate patient and family goals with comparative effectiveness research and use this to advance shared decision making with the doctor and health care professionals (e.g., asking about alternative treatments and new therapies).