Importance of Health Literacy in Adult Group Above 45 Years Old

This report highlights the importance of health literacy and education for adults above 45 years old in maintaining physical wellness. It discusses the background of health education, the assessment of learning needs, and the teaching plan. The report emphasizes the need for individuals to have a good understanding of health to maintain a healthy life. It also explores different teaching approaches and strategies to effectively educate adults about physical wellness.

Educating for health

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Background..................................................................................................................................3
Assessment of learning needs ....................................................................................................4
Teaching plan...............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................11

TITLE
The importance of health literacy in adult group above 45years old about physical wellness.
INTRODUCTION
Education for health is very important there are a lot of shortage about health awareness in
health literacy among the people of United Kingdom and other countries and it is very important
for people to have good health knowledge (FitzPatrick, 2019). the report will explain all the
necessary issues and how the health education and health literacy can change and make a better
healthy future. the report further explain how learning plan and teaching plan can utilized in
explaining the topic to 45 year above age group people for physical Wellness in their health
literacy and health education.
Background
Health education is one of the major subjects which everyone needs to focus it is very
crucial and everyone needs to be gotten a health education and health literacy so that they need
the proper information’s and get a proper education about how they can be stay healthy and it is
very important and crucial for the government also to maintain the decorum and services
providing to the country about health literacy and it is important. health literacy and health
education are something which is lacking from past so many years and it is very crucial for the
people to get a good health education so that they can focus on their body’s mental health and all
the Wellness which are required for them to maintain the best of their life (Asadi and Bagheri,
2020). it is crucial and every person should have a proper knowledge of how they can maintain
their physical and mental health Wellness and it is crucial to get the best of the health Wellness
as the social Wellness, physical Wellness intellectual Wellness, environmental Wellness,
spiritual Wellness and emotional Wellness of a particular person. Many of the people are not
even aware about health education and health literacy there are lack of short knowledge about
health educations and people are not aware how they can procure and make their life better and it
is very crucial for the government and for the health literacy management to provide a better
literacy about health so that people get aware about things. There are lots of people who get
infected and also get sick due to many reasons which are causes by lack of health education and
health literacy in the people.
It is crucial for everyone to know a good amount of knowledge and health literacy so that
they get to know about how they can cure things and why they are being unwell and what are the
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causes by which they are losing a good healthy life and becoming a sick person. It is crucial for
them to understand all their necessary criteria’s of understanding how they can make their life in
a better and healthy manner and health literacy also explain how they can make things fine even
at their home and without going to the hospitals and they can make cure to the things which
includes mental illness and emotional sides of the people which get affected by many reasons
needs to be cure and get a healthy literacy about health education. It is one of the major
responsibilities of the government also to make people aware about health literacy and health
education is very important they need to get learn about different things and to understand the
topic in the best way. There are different structures approaches An A conductive learning needs
assessment including the teaching plan which different organizations and universities are using
to teach people about health educations and health literacy which is one of the most crucial thing.
There are different scenarios which are being planned and different strategies which are helping
things in increasing health education and health literacy in the people, the report is explaining the
issues of physical illness and to provide a health literacy in the people above 45 years (Car and
et.al., 2019).
Assessment of learning needs
The criteria which are defined and analyse health literacy and learning needs includes the
prices which are using to make others understand and learn about how communications and
learning can help in providing a better teaching method about health literacy and health
education. It is one of the crucial factors which every people get to know about it and all the
teaching departments and education system is providing their best to educate people about health
and providing a health literacy among the citizens of the country (Tuli and et.al., 2018).
There are different benefits of assessing learning needs as it includes different ways of
process and it is important for them to understand all the criteria of health. The physical health
awareness and Wellness needs to be understood and people need to learn about why they are
getting unwell and how they can cure these things so that they can live a better life and a
healthier life in the future and can increase their performance towards their life in a better way. a
healthy life has a lot of benefits including good body good physical appearance and health-
conscious things which help in being strong and can fight a lot of infectious diseases.
It is very crucial to make others understand about different health education systems in
health literacy in the people so that they get to know about why health is so important and how
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they can cure and make their life in a better way and it is very important for them to understand
the criticality of health. the people about the age group of 45 years have a low immune system
and the body gets weaker time by time and it is very important to provide a health literacy and
health education to them so that they can make their life in a better way in a healthier life so that
they also can make things in the better with a healthy life. It is crucial for every person to have a
good health education but the people about the age group of 45 years needs to get aware about
physical Wellness and they need to notice about what health issues they are facing and how they
can cure these things and on what situations they need to consult a doctor on the right time so
that the disease doesn’t Harm much to them and they can get cure easily and have a healthy life
after that (Levine and Stillman-Lowe, 2019).
A Teaching plan include all the processes which a teacher needs to measures and take
according to the situations of how they can make others understand about the criteria’s and the
importance of education related to health. It is very important for the teacher to plan a process in
which every single detail a structural way of explaining things which explain all the processes in
the best way and it is very crucial for them to make it in such a way that it explains every single
importance of the education which they are providing to the people (Arnold, 2018). while
explaining things to 45 year above age group people needs to have a multiple plans and strategies
to explain the importance of health literacy and health educations which is important for them as
they need to take care of their physical even less so that they keep their body in a good condition
and they can utilize the body in the best ways. it helps in explaining how regular exercises can
provide a good body and what are the necessary nutrition’s and the sleeping process which is
include in the betterment of crucial physical Wellness. For example- old age people needs to
know about their health care needs like BP, sugar level, heart rate, etc.
Meeting the learning need
Humanistic approach – this approach of learning as well as teaching is considered as an
educational theory that focuses on teaching the whole child. This approach have strongly focuses
on emotional well-being of a student. As according to such concept teachers are focusing on the
idea that the children are good at the core while education must focus on several rational ways in
order to teach the whole children. As it suggests that students how to learn as well as all of their
requirements must be met within so that they learn well.
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Behaviouristic- It is considered as the one of the popular concept that focuses that how students
can learn. It highlights on the area that behaviour can be learned by environment as well as it
also states that inherited factors have very little impacts on the behaviour. As each and every
teacher knows about the student who can be difficult to work and manage with. Such behaviour
can sometimes hard to control and teacher needs to pay extra attention on them. Behaviourism is
considered as the key for teachers as it influence hoe students can react as well as behave. It aids
teachers understand that the home environment as well as lifestyle of student can be influencing
their behaviour and work in order to assist alongside improvement. For example- by giving
lessons on health care. Leaner needs are met.
Social cognitive theory ( SCT)- It describes the impacts of people's experience , environmental
factors as well as actions of others on people's behaviours. It gives the opportunity regarding
social support by self- efficacy, instilling expectations as well as using observational learning as
well as other reinforcements in order to accomplish behaviour change. It includes
Self-efficacy- The belief that people has control over as well as able to execute behaviour.
Self control- Monitoring as well as regulating the behaviour of individual.
Expectations- Describing the results regarding change within behaviour.
Reinforcement-Promoting rewards as well as incentives that boosts behaviour change .
Health Belief Model- It is considered as the model that can be utilized to guide the disease
prevention and health promotion programs. It can be utilize to describe as well as forecast the
people change within their health behaviours. It is considered as one of the most broadly used
model in order to understand health behaviours. It also highlights regarding how people need to
consider regarding problem being addressed as well as cost as well as barriers related with
changing behaviour. Such as Perceived barriers, Perceived benefits, self- efficacy, Cues to action
and many more.
The teaching plan is very important it helps in explaining all the processes in the best way
so that a teacher can explain the importance of all the crucial elements of the plan which are
structured in the teaching plan. It is important for the people to have a good knowledge about
every single elements and the factors which can affect their physical Wellness and it is very
crucial for them to do regular exercise in and take unnecessary protein nutrition’s and a proper
sleep with less of helping situation so that they can keep their bodies with a good conditions and
can utilize their body in the best ways (Silva and et.al., 2018).
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Tailoring the teaching plan is very important it helped in explaining all the necessary importance
in the best way about the product and the process with the content which the age group needs to
understand in the best learning process. it is crucial and it helped both individual and group
approaches successful as it is one of the best instruction processes. Tell ring is one of the best
instruction processes which includes differentiated processes and how the topic is related to the
betterment of the people. Teaching plan is very important as many teachers prepared their ways
of producing a plan to execute the majority of the things in the best way and it helped them in
explaining all the smallest issues in the best way so that they can provide the best of the
explanations to all the processes in the topic. It’s very important to explain the physical Wellness
and for that they required a proper structure of plan which includes working in the different ways
to make people aware about nutrition’s and exercises so that they can keep their body in the best
way and it requires the best of a plan with structure all the process is an it includes all the aims
and objectives of the teacher who is teaching about the physical Wellness and making health
literacy and health education's to the age group chosen. Teaching plan also help in making things
sure in the details and it provide a basic structural data which help in understanding things in a
better way and it also helps the people of the age group of 45 plus and above to get a better
understanding of the situations in the best way.
Teaching plan
What are the strategies you have used to create your teaching effective?
There are a lot of ways in which a teaching plan can be made and it is totally based on the
teacher a how they want to represent all their teaching and learning student students and the age
group which they are focusing on to explain all their related stuff.
• The first priority while making a teaching plan effective is to make motivations 1st
and it is very crucial to motivate every single person so that they focused more into
the topic and it helped in making things better and explain in a better way so that they
can explain things in such a manner that motivated people grab things easily and it
also provides a better impact of the situation.
 The second step is to model the skills which requires to make a structure of a plan
which includes modelling of most important step in the teaching. Model the skills are
important and it is a way of representing how you are explaining things to the age
group you are focusing in an while talking about physical Wellness it requires
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different ways of explaining things including exercises and other sports activity
which help them in grabbing the situation better and it also provides a support to them
and explaining things in a wider context (Li and et.al., 2020). for example, the teacher
can bring a lot of fruits and vegetables and provide them in a particularly sports
activities as in reward and after all the exercises it motivates a person to do the better
things and get the reward and the reward should be in such a manner that it also
effects the topic which includes physical Wellness.
 Trying out the new skills is also a way to attract people in making the best of a teaching
plan and it is important to try new things in different things according to the situations
and according to the group you are focusing in and explaining about health education and
health literacy it is important to take different scenarios in situations in explaining things
so that it can be utilized in the best way. Trying out Knew skills help people in engaging
in the activities as it makes a fun activity to the explaining and learning process which
attract people and include people more into the situations and it also help them in
explaining things. Explaining physical Wellness also includes sports activities and
different sports criteria’s which the teacher can utilize in explaining awareness and
nutrition processes which includes providing full nutrition knowledge which can help
people understand what to eat and when to it so that they can maintain a good physical
Wellness of the body and it also help in making things better for their health.
The strategies which are used to make teaching effective is use visualisation in which videos
and presentation is used for showing how physical exercise can be worked out. Besides that, 3-D
technology is used in classroom to show various exercise that can be performed. Hence, it has
led to giving effective view and knowledge of health. Along with it, another strategy used is
cooperative learning. Here, small teams are formed on basis of learner ability. Then, learning
activities is performed to improve their learning.
After the plan is created it is important to evaluate the plan in the best way for that the
teacher needs a best of the students and the age group which they are focusing in providing the
physical Wellness which includes them to motivate and also to make sure that they understand
the importance of the physical Wellness and health education as it can help them in the best of
their futures and also increase a better life with healthy life. The outcome can be checked after
the ways the people are responding of the age group which the teacher is focusing and the
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outcomes can be calculated by the feeling and the changes which the people are seeing after few
lectures and activities as the body responds the best and they can know and have a good
knowledge and they can see the changes which they are having in their bodies with a positive
vibe and a good awareness make them feel better (Raskind and et.al.,2019).
Teaching plan includes in the health literacy as people are not aware much about health
education and it is crucial for them so it is very important to make a structural way so that the
age group of the people doesn’t get messed up with the learning process and it is important to
make an educational way and the learning way in a fun activities and a structural activity of
teaching plans so that people get attracted and it also help them in understanding better with
more of the wider knowledge of health educations and how they can keep their physical
Wellness in the best way and what are the processes of taking the best nutrition’s diet so that
they can keep them self in a fit body and utilize their fit body into the best of their actions.
Conclusion
The report concludes that it is very important to have the best of the health educations to the
people so that they know about the importance of the health and how the health can change
things in the day-to-day life and it is very crucial to have a best understanding about the health
situations and health literacy. The report concluded further in explaining the health importance to
45 year above age group people for their physical Wellness so that they have a good knowledge
about how nutrition’s can help them and what are the processes which can make their life bit
healthier and how exercise can make things fine for them.
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APPENDIX
Teaching plan
Time/ duration Topic covered Teaching method Notes
1 hour Importance of
wellbeing and health.
What is well being.
Importance of healthy
life
Health education
Book It will cover topic of
health and wellbeing
and how it helps in
living healthy life.
1 hour Ways of maintaining
health
Strategies to maintain
health
Ways of doing
exercise
Healthy diet
Presentation The topic covered
will be to maintain
health and ways of
doing exercise.
2 hours Physical wellness
What is physical
wellness
Benefit of physical
wellness
Class discussion What is physical
wellness, its benefit
to old age people, etc.
1.30 hours Health exercise Doing exercise and
training (practical
session)
The practical session
will be taken of old
age people.
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