The Veterans Health Administration (VA) STAR-VA program is a person-centered, interdisciplinary intervention for managing distress behaviors in dementia in VA nursing homes, called Community Living Centers (CLCs). Teams often struggle to sustain STAR-VA after site-lead partner turnover. The STAR-VA Sustain...
Worldwide, the population is aging. Most older adults would prefer not to move from their current residence; however, there are human resource challenges in home care service provision. Smart home technology has evolved over the past decades and could provide an adjunct to home care and potentially delay m...
The aim was to investigate the association of cognitive trajectories and overnight surgical hospitalization in older adults, while controlling for and comparing to the association with acute medical hospitalizations.