TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing an interprofessional dementia specialty clinic
T2 - Conceptualization and evaluation of a patient-centered model
AU - Aguirre, Alyssa
AU - Hilsabeck, Robin C.
AU - O’Mahar, Kerry
AU - Carberry, Kathleen E.
AU - Ayers, Gayle
AU - Bertelson, John
AU - Rousseau, Justin F.
AU - Paydarfar, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The need for blueprints to design specialty care interprofessional collaboration (IPC) models is urgent, given the expanding aging population and current challenges in dementia diagnosis and treatment. We describe key steps creating an interprofessional outpatient dementia specialty clinic, efforts to sustain the model, and evaluation of interprofessional effectiveness and clinician satisfaction. The conception for the Comprehensive Memory Center was informed by qualitative research methodologies including focus groups, interviews, and literature reviews. Quantitative evaluation included satisfaction surveys and team effectiveness measures. The IPC model diverges from typical dementia practices through its interprofessional team, visit structure, approach to decision-making, in-house services, and community collaborations. Team retreats and workshops helped build clinician knowledge of interprofessional values and practices to sustain the IPC model. In the first 3.5 years, we served nearly 750 patients and their caregivers. Team evaluation results revealed that increased access to consultation and sharing the workload and emotional burden were beneficial. The majority of team members preferred the IPC model to traditional models of clinical care.
AB - The need for blueprints to design specialty care interprofessional collaboration (IPC) models is urgent, given the expanding aging population and current challenges in dementia diagnosis and treatment. We describe key steps creating an interprofessional outpatient dementia specialty clinic, efforts to sustain the model, and evaluation of interprofessional effectiveness and clinician satisfaction. The conception for the Comprehensive Memory Center was informed by qualitative research methodologies including focus groups, interviews, and literature reviews. Quantitative evaluation included satisfaction surveys and team effectiveness measures. The IPC model diverges from typical dementia practices through its interprofessional team, visit structure, approach to decision-making, in-house services, and community collaborations. Team retreats and workshops helped build clinician knowledge of interprofessional values and practices to sustain the IPC model. In the first 3.5 years, we served nearly 750 patients and their caregivers. Team evaluation results revealed that increased access to consultation and sharing the workload and emotional burden were beneficial. The majority of team members preferred the IPC model to traditional models of clinical care.
KW - Alzheimer disease
KW - Collaborative care
KW - Dementia
KW - Health care
KW - Interprofessional team
KW - Patient-centered
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U2 - 10.1080/13561820.2022.2060194
DO - 10.1080/13561820.2022.2060194
M3 - Article
C2 - 36739557
AN - SCOPUS:85129710778
SN - 1356-1820
VL - 37
SP - 254
EP - 261
JO - Journal of Interprofessional Care
JF - Journal of Interprofessional Care
IS - 2
ER -