Support for Dementia Care Partners using Telehealth: Tele‐STELLA Phase 1

Effective interventions that reduce dementia Care Partner stress and burden are available, but access to them is impeded by barriers such as distance, cost, behavioral symptoms of dementia, stigma and social anxiety. Tele‐STELLA is a multi‐component, videoconference‐based intervention designed to provide easily‐accessible education and support for Care Partners. The goal of this intervention is to diminish the frequency of behavioral symptoms that persons with dementia experience, and Care Partner reactivity to these symptoms. Here we report on the findings of Phase 1 of Tele‐STELLA.