{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Fernandez J"],"funding":["U.S. Department of Health and Human Services","HSRD VA","Health Resources and Services Administration"],"pagination":["601-606"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10902176"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["45(4)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Despite a burgeoning older-adult population, the number of health-care professionals with geriatric expertise continues to lag behind. In 2014, the American Geriatrics Society's position statement encouraged interprofessional training for health-care 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 geriatric expertise), two 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 a significant improvement in learner intentions to change medication prescribing by midpoint assessment (<i>p</i> = 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."],"journal":["Gerontology & geriatrics education"],"pubmed_title":["Outcomes from an interprofessional, dementia-focused, telementoring program: A brief report."],"pmcid":["PMC10902176"],"funding_grant_id":["I01 HX000486"],"pubmed_authors":["Agarwal KS","Fernandez J","Godwin KM","Lindo J","Green E","Amspoker AB","Pickens S","Asghar-Ali AA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Outcomes from an interprofessional, dementia-focused, telementoring program: A brief report.","description":"Despite a burgeoning older-adult population, the number of health-care professionals with geriatric expertise continues to lag behind. In 2014, the American Geriatrics Society's position statement encouraged interprofessional training for health-care 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 geriatric expertise), two 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 a significant improvement in learner intentions to change medication prescribing by midpoint assessment (<i>p</i> = 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.","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Oct-Dec","modification":"2026-06-03T23:32:51.225Z","creation":"2026-05-03T03:12:02.026Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10902176","cross_references":{"pubmed":["37647226"],"doi":["10.1080/02701960.2023.2253175"]}}