Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Supporting People Living with Long-term Conditions
King's College London
This course introduced how people living with long term conditions and health professionals can work in partnership to support self-management of care. It covered topics including the impact of living with long term conditions, the potential role of telemedicine and why person-centred care is vital.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Ehsan Khan
Lecturer
King's College London
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the potential impact of living with long term conditions for individuals and their families as well as the local, national and global context.
- Explain the importance of patient-centred care, collaborative care planning, goal setting and shared decision making for people living with long term conditions and those that care for them.
- Discuss how telehealth and telemedicine can be incorporated into care plans to empower and enhance self-management of long term conditions.
- Describe the role of families, carers and organisations that support people living with long term conditions.
Syllabus
- The definition and recognition of long term conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
- The impact of long term conditions on patients, carers and health services in a global context.
- The links between long term conditions and mental health.
- Requirements to foster psychological well-being when living with a long term condition.
- The importance of patient-centred care, goal setting and shared decision making and how to support them.
- Definitions of telehealth and telemedicine, and how they could be used to help patients with long term conditions.
- Advantages, disadvantages and barriers to using telehealth with patients living with long term conditions.
- The effects of long term conditions on families and carers.
- Long term conditions in the context of a complex health system.
Issued on 11th January 2018
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