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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
Communication strategies to improve older adults'understanding of health information
Juliana Piveta de Lima1, Jamila Geri Tomaschewski Barlem1, Daiane Porto Gautério Abreu1
1Universidade Federal de Rio Grande. Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Objectives:
to identify communication strategies suggested by Primary Health Care professionals to enhance older adults' understanding of health information.
Methods:
this qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study involved 20 PHC professionals from the Health Units in a city in Rio Grande do Sul. Data were collected in June 2023 through focus groups and analyzed using discursive textual analysis.
Results:
the category Strategies that Facilitate Communication with Older Adults emerged from the analysis. This category included strategies such as group meetings, using drawings to facilitate understanding, limiting the amount of information provided in each consultation, speaking slowly, using simple language, repeating information, and applying the re-teaching technique.
Final Considerations:
professionals need training and guidance on communication strategies that can facilitate older adults' understanding of health information.
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