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How to Choose a Retirement Community... |
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How to Choose a Retirement Community, Assisted Living Facility
and Nursing Home
This presentation will provide guidelines to help you become a more
informed consumer while looking for a skilled nursing or assisted
living facility for yourself or your loved one. Different services
provided and characteristics that affect quality of care will be
discussed. (Video length: 35 minutes, 48 seconds)
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the types of services provided by a skilled care
nursing facility.
- Outline the differences between a skilled care nursing
facility and an assisted living facility.
- List important aspects of good quality care in both skilled
nursing and assisted living facilities.
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Questions You Were Never Asked… But Should
Have Been |
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This session will provide an overview of the types of information
typically required in an initial and routine follow-up office visit.
A template for recording personal medical information for each type
of visit will be provided. (Video length: 33 minutes, 13 seconds)
Learning Objectives:
- Employ strategies to optimize doctors’ office visits.
- Ensure collection of relevant personal health information.
- Make efficient use of time spent with health care providers.
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A Roadmap to Reliable Health Information |
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This session focuses on finding and using reliable sources of health
information, and will provide information on Healthnet: Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network, a consumer health information program
of the Health Center Library. (Video
length: 56 minutes, 55 seconds)
Learning Objectives:
- Find accurate information about specific diseases and
treatments.
- Evaluate websites and other health information sources for
reliability.
- Research provider credentials and quality reporting data.
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Understanding the Results of Diagnostic or
Screening Tests |
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This session will focus on making sense of diagnostic and screening
test findings. An important step in becoming an educated health
care consumer is interpreting both positive and negative test
results. (Video length: 55 minutes, 51 seconds)
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the diagnostic
process.
- Employ standard measures to distinguish between good and bad
tests.
- Determine the best strategies in employing tests.
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Legal and Ethical Issues at the End of
Life |
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Legal and Ethical Issues at the End of Life: The Importance of
Advance Care Planning
This session will provide practical information about treatment
decisions at the end of life to increase the chance that care at the
end of life will be consistent with the patient’s goals and values.
Communications and decision-making between the healthcare provider
and the patient and between the patient and family will be explored.
(Video length: 45 minutes, 56 seconds)
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze legal and ethical aspects about treatment decisions
at the end of life.
- Describe the Patient Self Determination Act and Connecticut
Living Will Act.
- Utilize advance directives.
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Understanding HIPAA Privacy |
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This section will focus on the privacy aspects of the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. (HIPAA). (Video
length: 27 minutes, 56 seconds)
Learning Objectives:
- Provide definitions of terms within the law.
- Explain patient rights under the law.
- Discuss common disclosures under the law.
- Identify additional resources.
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 Welcome to HealthEcademy
At UConn’s HealthEcademy, participants receive practical
information to help them become better, more successful
patients and patient advocates for their children, spouses
and aging parents. This convenient program can be accessed
any time, day or night, wherever Internet access is
available.
Why are we offering this unique program? We know the task
of navigating today’s complex health care system is becoming
more challenging and frustrating for patients everywhere.
There is nearly universal agreement that being a
“successful” patient these days is difficult. More and more,
patients seek practical information to help them achieve
better outcomes. The demand for such information continues
to grow, yet people often do not know where to turn to
receive information that is current and credible.
As leaders in academic medicine, the University of
Connecticut Health Center has established the nation’s first
HealthEcademy to address this growing public health need. We
believe the opportunity to help people further their
knowledge and understanding as health care decision makers
is best fulfilled by those creating knowledge, teaching the
health care leaders of tomorrow and delivering today’s most
advanced and innovative care – the faculty and staff of an
academic health center. It is our privilege to bring this
program to you.
Please take a few minutes at the end of each session to
give us your feedback. We want to know what you liked and
where you believe we can improve. And please visit us again;
more topics and sessions will be added to the site over
time.
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice President for Health Affairs
Dean, School of Medicine
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