Program description highlighting how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is helping Veterans access care through their Video Connect app and piloting a project to implement an assessment tool that assesses technology’s suitability for patients’ needs, readiness for telehealth visits, and support for improving healthcare delivery for older adults.
Innovative Technology Solutions for Healthy Aging
Webinar exploring tools of what can be considered to be the best practices in technology innovations.
Telehealth for the cognitively impaired older adult and their caregivers: lessons from a coordinated approach
A paper discussing the findings from the CCARRE program whose aim is to provide care for older adults with cognitive impairment in New York City.
Doctoring from home: Physicians’ perspectives on the advantages of remote care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic
A qualitative study aimed to explore the benefits of telehealth for primary care physicians and their patients through semi-structured interviews.
If You Give Them Away, It Still May Not Work: Challenges to Video Telehealth Device Use Among the Urban Homebound
Report following the case study of a large urban home-based primary care program that addressed barriers to video telehealth by disseminating cellular-enabled tablets.
Enhancing Telehealth Competency: Development and evaluation of education models for older adults
The study aimed to improve telehealth accessibility for older adults by developing and evaluating telehealth education modules.
Targeted Telehealth Education Increases Interest in Using Telehealth Among a Diverse Group of Low-Income Adults
This study aimed to increase telehealth usage among vulnerable, low-income, minority older adults by providing education on telehealth and addressing its barriers.
If You Give Them Away, It Still May Not Work: Challenges to Video Telehealth Device Use Among the Urban Homebound
Report following the case study of a large urban home-based primary care program that addressed barriers to video telehealth by disseminating cellular-enabled tablets.
Telehealth Trials to Address Health Equity in Stroke Survivors
Research outlining possibilities for chronic care management of stroke survivors using telehealth, focusing on populations with adverse social determinants of health.
Teleheath Provider tool: Telehealth Glossary. reegarding Vision and/or Hearing Impairments.
Fact sheet that serves as a glossary for interpreters and health providers to. use with a glossary of terms related to Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and DeafBlind patients.
Teleheath Provider tool: Working with patients who are hearing and/ or vision impaired
Guidance of best practices to assist in hosting telemedicine visit for patients who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or DeadBlind.
Isolating together during COVID-19: Results from the Telehealth Intervention Program for older adults.
Research article highlights the challenge of isolation of older adults in the community especially during COVID-19, and how TIP-OA (Telehealth Intervention Program for Older Adults) is able to combat the challenge of isolation. This program is volunteer-based and includes friendly telephone conversations on a regular bases to older adults who may struggle with stress, depression, anxiety or fear of COVID-19.