Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)

New England GRECC

• Innovative support and care coordination for aging Veterans
• Risk Identification across the lifespan
• Novel treatments to optimize well-being and independence

• Bedford VA
• Alzheimer disease, including identification for biomarkers for drug development.
• Use of telehealth and technology in geriatrics.
• CLC quality and quality improvement.
• Improving multidisciplinary care for aging Veterans with complex needs.
• Boston VA
• Preventive rehabilitation that enhances therapeutic success and improves mobility.
• Fraility, cardiac and kidney diseases.     
• Developing approaches to assessing “What Matters Most” to improve age-friendly health care.
• Translational research for TBI and Stress Disorder: Lifespan analysis of the neurobiological effects of deployment trauma.
• Pharmacy driven medication reconciliation to identify cognitive impairment.
• Links between cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
• Pragmatic Evaluation of Events and Benefits of Lipid-Lowering in Older Adults (PREVENTABLE) Trial.

• Bedford and Boston VA
• Education and Resources for clinicians and caregivers of Veterans with dementia including an online curated caregiver resources library, videos, and a survival guide.
• Videos and resources to help older Veterans have meaningful conversations with clinicians about "What Matters Most".
• Telehealth education and resources for clinicians working in geriatrics.
• Bedford VA
• Annual half-day dementia symposia via national webinar
• Training in video telehealth for multi-disciplinary health care trainees
• Development of an online curated dementia caregiver education resource library
• Developing educational resources such as videos and a survival guide for dementia family caregivers, funded by the VA Office of Rural Health
• Boston VA
• Harvard Medical School Geriatrics education: Age Friendly Toolkit
• Developing educational videos, podcasts, and handouts for late life PTSD, funded by the VA Office of Rural Health

• Bedford and BostonVA
• Implementation of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative
• Implementation of Patient Priorities Care
• Bedford VA
• Family and Caregiver Telemedicine Clinic: video-into-home dementia management clinic with synchronous participation of multiple family members
• Tele-Neuropsychology Clinic: geriatric neuropsychological evaluation services to rural VA medical centers and community-based outpatient clinics
• ACORN Social Determinants of Health screener – Geriatrics Module in partnership with the VHA Office of Health Equity
• Boston VA
• Transitions of Care Programs: Coordinated Transitional Care (C-TraC), Hospital-in-Home, Discharge Medication Reconciliation and “Meds to Beds”
• Enhancing quality of provider prescribing for older adults in the emergency department (EQUIPPED)
• Geriatric Renal, Cardiology, Oncology and Capacity Clinic evaluate novel approaches to geriatric-informed care
• Live Long, Walk Strong and Gerofit provide physical therapy and supervised fitness activities focused on Mobility and secondary preventative care
• Innovative clinic informed by geriatric principles to design care for aging Veterans with PTSD, brain injury and psychosocial complexity
• Age Friendly 4Ms Toolkit

• Frailty & Cardiovascular Mortality in More Than 3 Million US Veterans Eur Heart J https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34907422/
• Executive Function Subgroups of PTSD Have Differentiable Functional Connectivity and Symptom Chronicity Biological Psychiatry https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(21)00373-5/fulltext
• Increasing Telehealth Visits for Older Veterans Associated with Decreased No-Show Rate in a Geriatrics Consultation Clinic J Gen Intern Med https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35476240/
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Older U.S. Military Veterans: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Psychiatric and Functional Burden Am J Geriatr Psychiatry https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34823979/
• Experience of the healthcare system for caregivers of persons with dementia Aging Health Res https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36405242/

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