Telehealth in Psychiatry of Old Age: Ordinary Care in Extraordinary Times in Rural North-West Ireland

The COVID-19 pandemic has required a rapid evolution of services to maintain routine care in Ireland. Services which had been previously slow to adapt technology in their practices are suddenly integrating various telehealth measures to continue routine practice where possible. In this article, we d...

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Autores principales: Patel, Sonn, Gannon, Aislinn, Dolan, Catherine, McCarthy, Geraldine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7260553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32591171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.05.024
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Sumario:The COVID-19 pandemic has required a rapid evolution of services to maintain routine care in Ireland. Services which had been previously slow to adapt technology in their practices are suddenly integrating various telehealth measures to continue routine practice where possible. In this article, we discuss the challenges we face in rapidly implementing telehealth in a rural Psychiatry of Old Age service in the North-West of Ireland.

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