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Long Term Care & Aging
An aging veteran population, together with rising health care utilization, increasing multiple co-morbidities, and expanding long term care needs, presents a major challenge over the next decade in the delivery of quality health care to our older veterans.
Long Term Care & Aging is a portfolio area focusing on 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.
A solicitation in long term care is currently a component of the HSR&D Program Announcement for Investigator Initiated Research (IIR): http://www.research.va.gov/funding/solicitations/docs/HSRD_Priorities_2006.pdf. This targeted solicitation identifies specific research areas related to long term care transitions, caregiving, and care coordination that are of priority consideration.
For general information about the Long Term Care and Aging portfolio, please contact:
Pauline Sieverding, PhD, JD, MPA
Long Term Care and Aging Scientific Program Manager
Health Services Research and Development (124-P)
Email: pauline.sieverding@va.gov
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