Language
English
Publication Date
1-1-2024
Journal
Gerontology & Geriatrics Education
DOI
10.1080/02701960.2023.2253175
PMID
37647226
PMCID
PMC10902176
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
10-1-2025
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Abstract
Despite a burgeoning older-adult population, the number of healthcare professionals with geriatric expertise continues to lag behind. In 2014, the American Geriatrics Society’s position statement encouraged interprofessional training for healthcare professionals. Telementoring remotely connects clinicians with specialists for education and group mentoring. This dementia-focused, 11-month, 1-hour each, telementoring program was modeled on the Alzheimer’s Association ECHO. Our interprofessional expert panel consisted of a geriatrician, a geriatric psychiatrist, an adult nurse practitioner (with geriatrics expertise), 2 geriatric pharmacists, a licensed social worker (coordinating a dementia day program), and a project coordinator. Learners were residents in family medicine and general psychiatry, physician assistant residents in mental health and geriatric psychiatry fellows (total = 31). There was significant improvement in learner intentions to change medication prescribing by midpoint assessment (p = 0.04). Learners reported few barriers to incorporating skills they learned. An interprofessional telementoring program can help nongeriatric practitioners improve skills in caring for older adults.
Keywords
Humans, Dementia, Geriatrics, Mentoring, Interprofessional Relations, Interprofessional Education, Aged, Telemedicine, Female, Male, Dementia, pharmacists, telementoring, residents, education
Published Open-Access
yes
Recommended Citation
Fernandez, Julianna; Agarwal, Kathryn S; Amspoker, Amber B; et al., "Outcomes From an Interprofessional, Dementia-Focused, Telementoring Program: A Brief Report" (2024). Faculty and Staff Publications. 3948.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/baylor_docs/3948