Patient Advocacy & The Co-Creation Experience
A happy, healthy wish to everyone from 1 Day 1 Week! It’s been weeks since the last post, which was intentional considering folks were busy with the holidays and I took some overdue self-care. Now it’s time to gear up for a great 2022, bringing you many more podcasts and articles about caregiving and patient advocacy!
As we step into the new year, our YouTube channel Caregiving Insights is off to a great start! I’m excited to have just posted Episode #4: Patient Advocacy & The Co-Creation Experience. In this episode, I have an insightful conversation with Dr. Valerie Williams-Sanchez. Valerie and I worked together 25 years ago for a company named Medical Data International and we’ve had extensive conversations over the years about patient advocacy and other important healthcare topics.
Valerie’s professional journey has taken her from journalism to advocacy, the later most recently leading to her PhD in literacy — a topic that spans so many areas from health to reading to financial and much more. In this podcast conversation, we traverse the landscape of patient advocacy and the importance within of knowing a patient’s rights. Weaved within our chat is a lot of wisdom from Valerie’s personal cancer journey, where she had to be her own patient advocate.
Patient Advocacy — while it’s not often thought of this way, it is a role as critical to patients as caregiving. Research of healthcare topics, communication with healthcare professionals, coordination of appointments, equipment, etc., dealing with insurance companies, review and understanding lab results, and much more are things an advocate must be confident to understand. More so, knowing how to connect all information and what to do with it…especially in terms of how, when, why and where to respectfully bring up what’s been learned and question healthcare professionals. Patient Advocacy is about co-creating the patient/advocate experience!
Whether you are already advocate, may be in the future (to whatever extent) or want to understand those who are, this episode provides important insight.
We hope you enjoy this episode! If you do, we welcome comments, thumbs up, and subscribers to our 1 Day 1 Week YouTube channel, Caregiving Insights.
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Thanks to Valerie for her time and the wisdom she’s gained along life’s journey!
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Todd “TJ” Keitz has been primary caregiver/patient advocate since June 2018 for his two parents, who each are faced with serious illness. As Creator/Chief Blogger of www.1day1week.com, his goals are to: – to provide greater understanding about caregiving and patient advocacy. – to effect change in the U.S. and around the globe through helping to build bridges within families and communities. – to help the movement for economic changes in support of the millions of people who take on these noble roles.
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