Geriatric Telepsychiatry in Academic Settings
| Autor: | Donald M. Hilty, Shilpa Srinivasan, Ashley Blackmon Jones |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
education.field_of_study 020205 medical informatics Telepsychiatry Population Graduate medical education Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Workforce 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Psychology education Geriatric psychiatry |
| Zdroj: | Geriatric Telepsychiatry ISBN: 9783319514895 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-51491-8_4 |
| Popis: | The growing older adult demographic in the USA and the concomitant increase in older adults with mental illness highlights the critical need for expanding access to mental health care in this population. Older adults with mental illness and/or substance use disorders often first receive clinical attention in the context of primary care settings, which are under-resourced, both in terms of time and professional training. Stigma in seeking mental health care, lack of information about services, and limited transportation to services remain major barriers to mental health care access and utilization among older adults. However, the volume of the current geriatric psychiatry workforce is insufficient to meet the mental healthcare needs of the aging population. Telepsychiatry, the provision of mental health/psychiatric care via live-two way videoconferencing, is one way to bridge the looming gap between available specialty trained providers and the population in need of services. While recognizing that healthcare providers of various specialties and disciplines play a vital role in providing mental health care to older adults, this chapter will primarily focus on academic implications of geriatric telepsychiatry within psychiatric (graduate medical) training programs. |
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