Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)

Bronx GRECC

• Population-based research in geriatric palliative care and dementia
• Enhancing team-based care and palliative care in older Veterans with serious or complex illness
• Improving care delivery to older Veterans in their communities by developing models of care that are coordinated across settings and regions (including rural access to geriatrics, telehealth and home-based care)
• Using implementation science to accelerate translation of research results into clinical practice and to implement safe and timely care

• Improving medication use and establishing infrastructure to support and disseminate interventions to improve medication safety in older Veterans
• Palliative care for people with hepatocellular carcinoma
• Building the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) network
• Family spending after hospice enrollment: a population-based study
• Pathway to detection and differentiation of delirium and dementia in the emergency department
• Goals of Care discussions in older adults with heart failure and their caregivers

• Rural interdisciplinary team training program enhances geriatric knowledge and skills of VA primary care clinicians and staff caring for older rural Veterans
• Geriatric Scholars virtual learning community provides web-based learning for VA and non-VA providers, staff and trainees
• Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship program provides a variety of clinical and leadership experiences to MDs, MSWs, NPs, and PharmDs over one year

• Providing geriatric consultation and support to rural providers and Veterans through use of telehealth modalities
• Improving medication use in older adults through deprescribing initiatives
• Supporting older Veterans across health care settings such as emergency department-based initiatives

• Comparing Outcomes Between Thiazide Diuretics and Other First-line Antihypertensive Drugs in Long-term Nursing Home Residents https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32229030/
• Medicaid Contributes Substantial Costs to Dementia Care in an Ethnically Diverse Community https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31425587/
• Implementation of Post-Acute Rehabilitation at Home: A Skilled Nursing Facility-Substitutive Model https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32343401/
• The VA and Non-VA Experience of Tracking Good Care https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31287771/
• Managing Older Adults with Presumed COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: A Rational Approach to Rationing https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32574404/
• The rural interdisciplinary team training program: a workforce development workshop to increase geriatrics knowledge and skills for rural providers https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29583103/

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