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Outcomes from an interprofessional, dementia-focused, telementoring program: a brief report.

Fernandez J, Agarwal KS, Amspoker AB, Godwin KM, Green E, Pickens S, Lindo J, Asghar-Ali AA. Outcomes from an interprofessional, dementia-focused, telementoring program: a brief report. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education. 2023 Aug 30; 1-6.

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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 ( = 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.




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