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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2886
igaa057.2886
Abstracts
Session 7215 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Telehealth Competencies for Interprofessional Teams Caring for Older Adults and Care Partners
Powers Becky 1 Nearing Kathryn 2 Dang Studi 3 Hung William 4 Lum Hillary 5 1 
South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States
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University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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Miami GRECC, Miami, Florida, United States
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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; James J Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States
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VA Eastern Colorado GRECC, Aurora, Colorado, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”796 796
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Providing interprofessional geriatric care via telehealth is a unique clinical skillset that differs from providing face-to-face care. The lack of clear guidance on telehealth best practices for providing care to older adults and their care partners has created a systems-based practice educational gap. For several years, GRECC Connect has provided interprofessional telehealth visits to older adults, frequently training interprofessional learners in the process. Using our interprofessional telehealth expertise, the GRECC Connect Education Workgroup created telehealth competencies for the delivery of care to older adults and care partners for interprofessional learners. Competencies incorporate key telehealth, interprofessional and geriatric domains, and were informed by diverse stakeholders within the Veterans Health Administration. During this symposium, comments will be solicited from attendees. Once finalized, these competencies will drive the development of robust curricula and evaluation measures aimed at training the next generation of interprofessional providers to expertly care for older adults via telehealth.