Caregivers' Role in In-Home Video Telehealth: National Survey of Occupational Therapy Practitioners

CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers routinely assist VHA patients with in-home OT video visits, which is invaluable to patients who are older and have complex medical needs. Barriers to caregiver involvement include caregivers' challenges with video telehealth or inability to assist, or lack of available caregivers. By elucidating the caregiver support role in video visits, this study provides clinicians with strategies to effectively partner with caregivers to enhance older patients' access to video visits.PMID:38483462 | DOI:10.2196/52049
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