Abstract

TOURETTE-TURGIS, Catherine  and  PEREIRA-PAULO, Lennize. Recognizing and validating patients' experience: the Patients' University Pilot Program in France. Revista da FAEEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2016, vol.25, n.46, pp.33-44. ISSN 0104-7043.  https://doi.org/10.2015/01047043v25n462016033.

Success of therapeutic strategies in the treatment of chronic patients has the effect of improving their quality of life and helping them to survive while reducing risks of complications. The development of patient education questions the conceptual field and usual training strategies used in adult education. This paper proposes to consider the experience of illness as an opportunity for learning for patients living with a chronic disease person. The recognition of patients' expertise and experience must give them access to news ways of validation and professionalism for those who want to become health actors and participate to the improvement of care organizations. The patients' university is an academic pilot project which is an example of innovation which can be implemented to help people experiencing chronic disease to become keys actors contributing to the improvement of health organizations.

Keywords : Chronic Disease; Patient Education; Expert Patient; Long-life Learning; Therapeutic Education.

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