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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spelling pubmed-72605532020-06-01 Telehealth in Psychiatry of Old Age: Ordinary Care in Extraordinary Times in Rural North-West Ireland Patel, Sonn Gannon, Aislinn Dolan, Catherine McCarthy, Geraldine Am J Geriatr Psychiatry Article 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. American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-09 2020-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7260553/ /pubmed/32591171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.05.024 Text en © 2020 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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