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Healthcare and Aging Network
HAN - An ASA Constituent Group |
Health Literacy and Older Adults
Nearly half of your clients and patients may have an undiagnosed condition— one that prevents them from benefiting from the treatment plans and programs that you design. Ninety million adult Americans are at risk of excess hospitalizations and poor health outcomes because of their low health literacy. The incidence of low health literacy increases with age, with the greatest burdens falling on those over 75.
ASA's Healthcare and Aging Network and the Network of Multicultural Aging developed a one-day special program on these issues for the 2005 ASA-NCOA Joint Conference. Below are the speakers' presentation materials and a four-page resource list on older adults and health literacy.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005
10:30 AM-NOON Opening Symposium: The Hidden Risk of Low Health Literacy for Older Adults
- Introduction: Health Literacy and Older Adults
(Joanne Schwartzberg, MD, Director, Aging and Community Health, American Medical Association)
- National Initiatives to Address Health Literacy
(Cynthia Baur, PhD, Senior Health Communication and e-Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD)
- Training Hospital Physicians and Staff to Address Health Literacy
(Nancy Bucher, RN, MSN, Vice President of Patient Services, Crozer Keystone Health System, Upland, PA)
- Literacy and Health Outcomes: Mitigating Disparities with Disease Management
(Darren DeWalt, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC)
2:00-4:00 PM (THREE CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS)
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Communicating Health Messages Through Print Materials
(Janet Ohene-Frempong, MS, President, J.O. Frempong & Associates, Elkins Park, PA, and Principal & Founding Member, The Clear Language Group)
- Talk the Talk: Speaking the Language of the Older Adult for Health
(Aracely Rosales, President, Plain Language and Culture, Inc., as Division of Rosales Communications, Philadelphia, PA, and Co-Founder and Principal, Clear Language Group)
- Making Health Systems User-Friendly
(Sarah Furnas, RN, Furnas Consulting, Philadelphia, PA, and Member, Clear Language Group)
4:30–6:00 PM Closing Session: Charting the Course to Improved Health Literacy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Audiotapes of all of the sessions that were part of the special program are available for purchase online. Visit the link to ASA's audiotape vendor at https://www.nrstaping.com/asa/asa2005.php for purchase. Audiotapes can be purchased for all of the sessions using the following order numbers:
SESSION |
ORDER # |
The Hidden Risk of Low Health Literacy (Opening Session) |
172 |
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Communicating Health Messages Through Print Materials |
360 |
Talk the Talk: Speaking the Language of the Older Adult for Health |
364 |
Making Health Systems User-Friendly |
362 |
Charting the Course to Improved Health Literacy: Where Do We Go From Here? (Closing Session) |
470 |
RESOURCE LIST
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