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Telehealth and Family Caregiving: Developments in Research, Education, Policy, and Practice

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One of the most exciting developments in the field of telehealth has been the use of telecommunication technologies to provide health information, education, and ­support to family caregivers of individuals with chronic illnesses. Telehealth has been defined as the use of telecommunications and information technologies to provide access to health information and services across a geographical distance, including (but not limited to) consultation, assessment, intervention, and follow-up programs to ensure maintenance of treatment effects. Internet, point-to-point videoconferencing, e-mail, telephone, biosensor, and virtual reality interactions between providers and family caregivers are all subsumed under the definition of telehealth (Glueckauf & Ketterson, 2004; Glueckauf, Pickett, Ketterson, Loomis, & Rozensky, 2003).

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Acknowledgments

This paper has been supported partially by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (R34MH78999) and the Johnny B. Byrd. Sr. Alzheimer’s Center and Research Institute (ARG-2007) to the first author. We also express our appreciation to Linda Jamison for her excellent editorial assistance.

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Glueckauf, R.L., Noël, L.T. (2011). Telehealth and Family Caregiving: Developments in Research, Education, Policy, and Practice. In: Toseland, R., Haigler, D., Monahan, D. (eds) Education and Support Programs for Caregivers. Caregiving: Research, Practice, Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8031-1_7

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