ALZ i-Connect

Abstract

Currently, there is not enough time or staff in the physician's office to provide education about Alzheimer's disease for newly diagnosed patients and their family members. The Alzheimer's Association Cleveland Area Chapter has implemented a novel approach for individuals to connect to helpful information about Alzheimer's disease and related dementias while at the physician's office. This project is being piloted at two memory assessment clinics of The Cleveland Clinic as a way to give assessment center staff the opportunity to connect families right away with the free support services available at the Association.

The Implementation Success of Technology-Based Counseling in Dementia Care: Scoping Review

“…We defined acceptability as the perception among implementation stakeholders of technology-based counseling that the intervention is agreeable, palatable, or satisfactory [17]. Within the data related to the conceptual category (reported for 20 interventions [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]38,40,[74][75][76][77][78][79][80]; refer to Table 2), we identified the dimensions measures to promote acceptability and impact, which can be further differentiated into impact of parts of the service and impact of the overall service. Measures to promote acceptability were reported, specifically from the perspective of the organizations.…”

“…Adoption is defined as the intention, decision, or action to use an intervention [17] (reported for 12 interventions [29][30][31][32]36,37,40,42,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54]65,[67][68][69][74][75][76][77][78][79][80]; refer to Table 2). Dimensions of adoption were organizational motive, mode of decision, and uptake of interventions motivated internally or externally.…”

“…We defined feasibility as the extent to which technology-based counseling can be successfully used [17] and identified the dimensions practicability, factors impeding feasibility, and factors promoting feasibility (reported for 13 interventions [29][30][31][32]36,39,40,43,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79]; refer to Table 2). The practicability of the interventions was stated from the perspective of the provider, the organization, or the setting.…”

“…On the basis of Proctor et al [17], we defined the conceptual category implementation cost as the cost impact of an implementation effort reported from the perspective of a provider or the providing institution (reported for 3 interventions [36,[62][63][64][74][75][76][77][78][79]; refer to Table 2). We identified the dimensions cost impact of delivery because of complexity of intervention, cost impact of implementation because of complexity of implementation strategy, and cost impact because of varying complexity of settings.…”

“…Within the conceptual category of penetration, defined as a step of integrating the technology-based counseling intervention into the service setting ( [17] reported for 11 interventions [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]40,[62][63][64][65]67,[74][75][76][77][78][79][80]; refer to Table 2), we identified 3 dimensions: collaboration with stakeholders, access to the service, and spread. Data from interventions describe cooperation with stakeholders to implement the intervention, initiated either by the implementing organization itself or jointly through cooperation with other stakeholders in the setting.…”