The Nevada Geriatric Education Center is seeking academic and administrative faculty to be “Scholars in Health Literacy and Aging,” an interdisciplinary faculty development opportunity. The project ...

The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative helps states teach their students and adults the language to advocate for their ...

Health literacy is the ability to find, understand, and use health information to make informed decisions. The U.S. government now recognizes both personal and organizational responsibility for health ...

Include Family Members. As Jones, Treiber, and Jones state, “it takes a village” to assist a patient who has low health literacy. 13 Not only do the various members of the healthcare team serve in ...

Health literacy describes the ability of individuals to find, understand, and use information to make health-related decisions. This is a vital, but often overlooked, part of healthcare and improved ...

Adult literacy advocate Toni Cordell recounts the story of feeling comforted when her doctor told her that her medical concern could be solved with an easy surgery. She agreed to proceed without ...

In the rush to digitize care through AI, telehealth and predictive analytics, many organizations have overlooked a fundamental variable that determines whether any of these innovations succeed: health ...

Source: Ilan Kelman Mental health literacy can overcome the reticence to talk about mental health and well-being. The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative, founded in 2023, has promoted and ...

Taking care of our own health and that of our family is an ongoing part of everyday life, not just when we visit a doctor or hospital. Increasing our health literacy can help us protect our health, ...

A recent study found that teach-to-goal methods are more effective than brief interventions in metered-dose inhaler education for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, ...