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Using Telehealth Technology to Support Family Caregivers: Description of a Pilot Intervention and Preliminary Results
- Source :
- Physical & Occupational Therapy In Geriatrics. 28:307-320
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2010.
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Abstract
- This project was funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as a part of a national pilot program to design interventions that would support caregivers of older veterans. The specific project described here employed in-home messaging units, which are already widely used by the VA in disease-management programs, as a device to educate and support family caregivers (CGs) of older, functionally impaired veterans. The primary goal of the pilot program was to improve the well-being of both family CGs and their veteran care recipients (CRs) by (a) engaging CGs more actively and effectively in their veterans’ care, and (b) directly addressing the emotional needs of caregivers themselves. A three-group quasi-experimental design (instrumental support, instrumental+emotional support, wait-list control) was employed. Outcomes from the perspective of the caregiver, care recipient, and the health system were evaluated. In this paper, we further describe the experimental design of the program, the role o...
- Subjects :
- Emotional support
business.industry
Rehabilitation
Psychological intervention
Telehealth
humanities
Support family
Instrumental support
Occupational Therapy
Nursing
Intervention (counseling)
Medicine
Pilot program
Geriatrics and Gerontology
business
Gerontology
Veterans Affairs
health care economics and organizations
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15413152 and 02703181
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical & Occupational Therapy In Geriatrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8dd2ffc2374db46df4482d637d3b40bd