Exploring family health

How can families support healthy living and cope with illness? This free course, Exploring family health, will provide an understanding of what is meant by socialisation. You will recognise how a family can learn and support good and poor health behaviours alongside government interventions, such as the 5 A DAY strategy. Identification of people with Alzheimer's disease is steadily increasing and you will consider key features and research. Caring within a family will be considered through reading about Sheila who cares for her husband and son. Finally, the course will look at the plight of young carers, often hidden from view, and losing part of their childhood due to their caring responsibilities.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Learning health attitudes and behaviour
• 1 Learning health attitudes and behaviour
• 1.1 The 5 A DAY campaign
• 1.2 Interpreting a pie chart
• 2 Changing mealtime routines
• 2 Changing mealtime routines
• 3 Obesity and health
• 3 Obesity and health
• 3.1 The body mass index
• 3.2 Change4Life
• 4 The family, illness and care
• 4 The family, illness and care
• 4.1 Alzheimer’s disease
• 4.2 Children as carers
• 5 Conclusion
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements