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

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2286
igaa057.2286
Abstracts
Session 5940 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Integrating Caregiver Education and Support into Multidisciplinary Video Visits
Rossi Michelle 1 Jost Lauren 2 Engel Ina 2 Dolbee Carol 2 Ward Keisha 3 1 
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
3 
University of Pittsburgh, pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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”661 661
© 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
The TeleDementia Clinic is an interdisciplinary longitudinal telehealth dementia clinic providing care to rural Veterans in Western Pennsylvania with cognitive decline. The TeleDementia Caregiver Support group uses telehealth to provide caregiver support and education to those caregivers with the highest levels of caregiver burden in this population. The support group has caregivers participating in the session at different rural clinics while a multidisciplinary team of professional (geropsychologist, geriatrician, nurse practitioner and others) are located at an urban VA medical center. All can interact via video telehealth connection. Each session provides a short educational session on caregiving topics that then provides a springboard for caregiver discussion about their own experiences. The multidisciplinary clinician team lend their expertise to the education and support of caregivers. Both quantitative and qualitative analysis of effectiveness of this model will be discussed.