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Competency (VI) 6.1 Determine factors that affect communication with the identified audience. 6.1.2 Identify the assets, needs, and characteristics of the audience that affect communication and message design (e.g. literacy levels, language, culture, and cognitive and perceptual abilities). Summary: This week, I spent time finalizing some of the pages in the early-stage care guide, working with…

Today at the CARE Center, I spent the day adding designs, pictures, and different graphics for the early-stage care guide. Since all of the pages are finished, I will continue to work on creating the designs for them. I spoke with Sarah about some of the pages to adjust or change, so I will also…

Today at the CARE Center, I worked on different graphics, designs, and pages for the early-stage care guide. I made it my goal to try and add all of the pages so that for the last weeks, I can work on finalizing the draft. By the end of the day, I had all of the…

Competency (VI) 6.1 Determine factors that affect communication with the identified audience. 6.1.2 Identify the assets, needs, and characteristics of the audience that affect communication and message design (e.g. literacy levels, language, culture, and cognitive and perceptual abilities). Summary: This week, I spent time working on the early-stage care guide, working with different graphics, pictures,…

Today at the CARE Center, I spent most of the day designing more for the care guide. I got feedback today from Jenay and Sarah about what they do and do not want to see, which was very helpful for the process. Jenay suggested to add pictures of people to give the guide a more…

Today at the CARE Center, I spent the day working on designs for the early-stage care guide. Today, I felt that I needed some inspiration for how to organize the information, so I found some other caregiver guides online to compare organization and structure of the pages. This was very helpful for giving me ideas…

Competency (VI) 6.1 Determine factors that affect communication with the identified audience. 6.1.1 Segment the audience to be addressed, as needed. 6.1.2 Identify the assets, needs, and characteristics of the audience that affect communication and message design (e.g. literacy levels, language, culture, and cognitive and perceptual abilities). Summary: This week, I spent time designing the…

Today at the CARE Center, I spent more time working on designs and graphics for the early-stage care guide. Sarah and I finalized the “R” in CARE backpack to mean resources, and we agreed this would work if resources referred to appointment notes, medication lists, emergency contacts, while “E” for emergency was an extra pair…

Today at the CARE Center, I worked on more graphic designs and details for the early-stage care guide. This included the dementia symptoms, which were designed as a road, the timeline of dementia and why this may vary, and the CARE backpack, a backpack designed to follow the letters of CARE with a mnemonic: C…

Competencies (1) 1.1 Plan assessment 1.1.1 Define the purpose and scope of the assessment. 1.1.2 Identify priority population. Summary: Since Sarah and I have updated and changed the guidance of the care guide, this allowed us to redefine the purpose of the care guide (1.1.1). With these updates, we made sure to understand who the…