Background: About 11 million Americans are caregivers for the 6.7 million Americans currently living with dementia. They provide over 18 billion hours of unpaid care per year, yet most have no formal dementia education or support.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Telemedicine has recently become a part of mainstream clinical practice. Many curricula have been developed to teach general and specialty-specific video telemedicine skills; however, a lack of defined best practices for translating comprehensive interprofessional geriatric care to the virtual setting presents a unique challenge to educators and clinicians. This manuscript introduces and describes the development of competencies for video telemedicine with older adults for all health professionals who treat them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Prim Care Community Health
March 2021
Background: To characterize the experience of converting a geriatrics clinic to telehealth visits in early stages of a pandemic.
Design: An organizational case study with mixed methods evaluation from the first 8 weeks of converting a geriatrics clinic from in-person visits to video and telephone visits.
Setting: Veteran's Health Administration in Northern California Participants Community-dwelling older Veterans receiving care at VA Palo Alto Geriatrics clinic.