Course Details
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- Topics: Communication, Healthy Aging & Older Adults
- Audience: Community Health Workers (CHWs)
- Format: Self-Paced Module
- Language: English
CHW Healthy Aging Specialty Track
Module 5: Communicating with Older Adults
Gives you practical strategies for tone, pacing, visuals, plain language, and teach-back methods, helps you communicate with clients who have trouble hearing or seeing, and prepares you to navigate sensitive conversations like end-of-life and dementia through a real-world scenario you'll work through yourself.
Learning objectives:
- Identify key principles for effective communication with older adults
- Demonstrate strategies for addressing sensory or cognitive barriers
- Apply trauma-informed and culturally responsive communication approaches