How to communicate with your loved one’s provider
Family caregivers have a crucial role to play as partners in healthcare with physicians and other healthcare professionals. But first they need to know how to interact with them most effectively. In this session, we’ll spell out specific methods for communicating information with even the busiest doctors and making yourself a valued member of the healthcare team.
Date October 29, 2019
Hosted By WellMed Charitable Foundation
Tags seniors, Health and Wellness, caregiver, Aging, caregiving, caregivers, elderly, family
Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD
Barry J. Jacobs is a clinical psychologist, family therapist, and the Director of Behavioral
Sciences for the Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program in Springfield,
Pennsylvania. He is the co-author (with Julia L. Mayer, Psy.D) of AARP Meditations for
Caregivers—Practical, Emotional and Spiritual Support for You and Your Family (Da Capo,
2016) and the author of The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers—Looking After Yourself
and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent (Guilford, 2006). He is a co-editor of the ebook,
Collaborative Perspectives—A Selection of CFHA’s Best Blogs From 2009-2015 (CFHA,
2017).
Dr. Jacobs has given more than 400 presentations on family caregiving for family caregivers,
community groups, and medical and mental health professionals. He is the national spokesperson
on caregiving for the American Heart Association and an honorary board member of the Well
Spouse Association. He has served on the expert panel for the Caregiver Crisis Great Challenge
for TEDMED.com and as a board member of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, a
national organization on the integration of mental and physical healthcare. In 2016, he received
its lifetime achievement award, the Don Bloch Award. He has held adjunct faculty positions with
the Temple University School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing,
and the Department of Psychology of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.