Telehealth in Psychiatry of Old Age: Ordinary Care in Extraordinary Times in Rural North-West Ireland

The COVID-19 pandemic has required a rapid evolution of services to maintain routine care in Ireland. Services which had been previously slow to adapt technology in their practices are suddenly integrating various telehealth measures to continue routine practice where possible. In this article, we d...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020-09, Vol.28 (9), p.1009-1011
Hauptverfasser:	Patel, Sonn, Gannon, Aislinn, Dolan, Catherine, McCarthy, Geraldine
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Betacoronavirus Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control COVID-19 Geriatric Psychiatry - methods Geriatric psychology Geriatrics & Gerontology Gerontology Health care Health Services Accessibility Humans Ireland - epidemiology Life Sciences & Biomedicine older persons Pandemics - prevention & control Patient Care - methods Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control Psychiatry Rural areas Rural Population SARS-CoV-2 Science & Technology technology Telemedicine Telemedicine - methods
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Zusammenfassung:	The COVID-19 pandemic has required a rapid evolution of services to maintain routine care in Ireland. Services which had been previously slow to adapt technology in their practices are suddenly integrating various telehealth measures to continue routine practice where possible. In this article, we discuss the challenges we face in rapidly implementing telehealth in a rural Psychiatry of Old Age service in the North-West of Ireland.
ISSN:	1064-7481 1545-7214
DOI:	10.1016/j.jagp.2020.05.024