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Group Telehealth Interventions Fostering Social Connection Among Older Veterans and Their Families
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual and telephone visits rapidly replaced most in-person care within the Veterans Health Administration (VA) to reduce virus spread. To address the emerging mental health needs of older Veterans (e.g., isolation, loneliness), we developed an 8-we...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969833/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.789 |
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description | During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual and telephone visits rapidly replaced most in-person care within the Veterans Health Administration (VA) to reduce virus spread. To address the emerging mental health needs of older Veterans (e.g., isolation, loneliness), we developed an 8-week group treatment manual, deliverable over telephone or videoconference, to foster social connection and address pandemic anxieties. The manual was disseminated in March 2020 as a rapid response to emergent COVID-19 pandemic realities, during which many locations in the United States called for immediate self-quarantine measures for unknown durations. This talk will present the user-centered design of the manual, preliminary feasibility and acceptability findings from provider surveys, and introduce versions of the manual targeting specific populations (e.g., caregivers, Spanish speakers) currently in development or in pilot testing. |
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spelling | pubmed-89698332022-04-01 Group Telehealth Interventions Fostering Social Connection Among Older Veterans and Their Families Weiskittle, Rachel Mlinac, Michelle Innov Aging Abstracts During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual and telephone visits rapidly replaced most in-person care within the Veterans Health Administration (VA) to reduce virus spread. To address the emerging mental health needs of older Veterans (e.g., isolation, loneliness), we developed an 8-week group treatment manual, deliverable over telephone or videoconference, to foster social connection and address pandemic anxieties. The manual was disseminated in March 2020 as a rapid response to emergent COVID-19 pandemic realities, during which many locations in the United States called for immediate self-quarantine measures for unknown durations. This talk will present the user-centered design of the manual, preliminary feasibility and acceptability findings from provider surveys, and introduce versions of the manual targeting specific populations (e.g., caregivers, Spanish speakers) currently in development or in pilot testing. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8969833/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.789 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Weiskittle, Rachel Mlinac, Michelle Group Telehealth Interventions Fostering Social Connection Among Older Veterans and Their Families |
title | Group Telehealth Interventions Fostering Social Connection Among Older Veterans and Their Families |
title_full | Group Telehealth Interventions Fostering Social Connection Among Older Veterans and Their Families |
title_fullStr | Group Telehealth Interventions Fostering Social Connection Among Older Veterans and Their Families |
title_full_unstemmed | Group Telehealth Interventions Fostering Social Connection Among Older Veterans and Their Families |
title_short | Group Telehealth Interventions Fostering Social Connection Among Older Veterans and Their Families |
title_sort | group telehealth interventions fostering social connection among older veterans and their families |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969833/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.789 |
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