With photostrips better prepared for the doctor

Information Processing Difficult

One in three Dutch people, many of them elderly, have limited health skills and therefore have problems communicating with their general practitioner, according to Koops van & Jagt. "They have a hard time understanding the information in flyers and flyers, and having conversations with health care providers, and I've been studying how we could make pamphlets that we can do. they could use. "

Koops van's Jagt allows the use of what are called photo tapes for general practitioners: visual stories with photos and captions on subjects who visit the doctor. Koops van 't Jagt has developed seven strips of photographs each dealing with a subject in one page, such as asking the doctor to use understandable language, to take someone away. a to the doctor, to take medication and to apply advice. "Older people indicated that this form of communication was preferable to a traditional booklet, which consisted mainly of text, and people in waiting rooms also indicated that they often noticed comics more than files."

just from the waiting room threatens to disappear. According to the Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap, patients use folders less and a website is better. Koops van & Jagt: "I also think that something needs to be done on current flyers, but I do not think that a website is the best solution: people who are important and want to often have limited numerical skills, and a vulnerable group will be at a disadvantage. "

Numerical and interactive versions of the comic strip have also been developed. These can be found on oef.nl, a website where people can learn various skills.

By: Redactie National Zorggids