|
Long Term Care and Aging
Long term care services are vital to many veterans with chronic illness or severe disability, as well as those veterans recently returned from OEF/OIF deployment with traumatic injuries. There has been increased demand for services that are geared toward providing support for maximal possible recovery and community reintegration for severely disabled veterans and the families of those veterans, who can no longer care for themselves but who do not want to be cared for in an institutional setting. In addition, this portfolio focuses on the aging veteran population, by supporting research that looks to find new models of care--acute, preventive, chronic, rehabilitative, and long-term--to increase access and improve delivery of health care to our older VA patient population by testing pathways and protocols to better understand and manage: aging syndromes (e.g. frailty, immobility, falls, and cognitive impairment); co-occurring diagnoses within a specific older population (e.g. dementia and hip fractures, nursing home care and congestive heart failure); all types of care provided to elderly veterans e.g. facility care, home care, informal caregiving and caregiver issues, and transitions between care); end-of-life issues (e.g. hospice / palliative care and quality of dying issues); and other aging related research addressing health outcomes and successful aging in the older veteran population. Long-term care and caregiving are HSR&D priorities, as described in the current Program Announcement of HSR&D Priorities.
For general information about the Long Term Care and Aging, please contact:
Pauline Sieverding, MPA, JD, PhD
Long Term Care and Aging Program Manager
Health Services Research and Development (124P)
Email: pauline.sieverding@va.gov
|
