Supporting People Living with Long-term Conditions

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King's College London

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Supporting People Living with Long-term Conditions

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Supporting People Living with Long-term Conditions

The course Supporting People Living with Long-term Conditions is an online class provided by King's College London through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Explore how healthcare professionals work in partnership with people with long-term conditions in this free online course.

Course description

3 weeks

There are some 15 million people in the UK currently living with a long-term condition and many more millions worldwide. Many are living with more than one long-term condition, which is impacting on both their physical and psychological wellbeing.
Self-management of long-term conditions
The focus of healthcare is rapidly changing both globally and across professional disciplines. Quality, patient-centred care requires an understanding of the evidence base for disease management, alongside collaborative care planning that includes the patient, their family, carers and the multidisciplinary team.
This approach will empower individuals with long-term conditions to self-manage their care and ensure that they are supported holistically. To enable this, effective partnership working with healthcare professionals is essential. How best can this be achieved?
Understand and support people with long-term conditions
This free online course enables healthcare professionals to better understand and support people living with long-term conditions.
Learning with academic experts and practitioners from King’s College London, as well as other healthcare professionals worldwide, you will explore some of the key issues such as:
How can long-term conditions be defined?
What are the social and economic impacts of living with a long-term condition?
What are the links between effective symptom management and living well?
How can individuals be supported in self-management?
Can telehealth/telemedicine aid those living with chronic conditions to remain independent?
How can inter-professional working educate and empower both patients and their families or carers to be actively engaged in decision making?
How does having a long-term condition affect a carer’s health and their relationships?

The definition and recognition of long term conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
The impact of long term conditions on patients, carers and health services in a global context.
The links between long term conditions and mental health.
Requirements to foster psychological well-being when living with a long term condition.
The importance of patient-centred care, goal setting and shared decision making and how to
support them.
Definitions of telehealth and telemedicine, and how they could be used to help patients with
long term conditions.
Advantages, disadvantages and barriers to using telehealth with patients living with long term conditions.
The effects of long term conditions on families and carers.
Long term conditions in the context of a complex health system.

Describe the potential impact of living with long term conditions for individuals and their families as well as the local, national and global context.
Explain the importance of patient-centred care, collaborative care planning, goal setting and shared decision making for people living with long term conditions and those that care for them.
Discuss how telehealth and telemedicine can be incorporated into care plans to empower and enhance self-management of long term conditions.
Describe the role of families, carers and organisations that support people living with long term conditions.

This course is designed for healthcare professionals, but will also be helpful for those with an academic or personal interest in supporting people living with long-term conditions.

King’s College London
King’s College London, established in 1829 and a founding college of the University of London, is one of the world’s leading research and teaching universities, based in the very heart of London.

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Prerequisites & Facts

Supporting People Living with Long-term Conditions

Course Topic

Psychology & Mental Health

University, College, Institution

King’s College London

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Supporting People Living with Long-term Conditions

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / King's College London you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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