198 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book supports healthcare students and professionals to understand and respond better to the learning needs of patients. Focusing on how patients absorb and retain health information, it promotes person-centred care in order that patients can participate more meaningfully in their treatment and care. Frequently, patients are expected to grasp a massive amount of information in a short... Read more

 1. Think and Act Patient Learning - A framework  

2. Salutogenesis and Sense of Coherence 

3. Learning during illness 

4. Health Literacy 

5. The Pedagogical Encounter

6. Reflections on implementing the Think and Act Patient Learning framework

Biography

Lena Engqvist Boman, Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Science and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. 

Ann Langius-Eklöf, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Sweden. 

Kay Sundberg, Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Science and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. 

Josefin Wångdahl, Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Science and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.