ANN ARBOR GRECC FY 03 HIGHLIGHTS

I. Collaboration With Other VA Entities

GRECC/EES Partnership Committee. (Fitzgerald)

Site for Special Fellowship Program in Academic Geriatrics. (Terpenning)

II. Aging Research

Applied Clinical

Maximal step length indicates disability and fall risk. (Alexander)

Health Systems Research

VISN 11 is funding a pilot examination of Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) data from VA NHCU's and community nursing homes in Michigan. (Fries)

Preliminary results show that quality in state-sponsored home- and community-based care in Michigan improved after the implementation of a new assessment system (the RAI-HC). (Fries)

Examining impact of Nurse Practitioner management of patients with chronic congestive heart failure will decrease hospitalizations (Vaitkevicius)

Basic Biomedical

Novel murine genetic models of trinucleotide repeat disorders. Positron emission tomography studies of movement disorder pathophysiology. (Albin)

III. Education and Training

Site for D.W. Reynolds Grant "Comprehensive Programs to Strengthen Physicians' Training in Geriatrics." (Supiano and Fitzgerald)

CBOC Survey assessing the educational needs of all CBOC personnel in VISN 11. (Fitzgerald)

VI. Clinical Demonstrations/Best Practices

Model program in Delirium prevention. (Kamholz)

V. Dissemination of GRECC Products

GRECC sponsored conferences:

Fall 2003 - The Intersection of Delirium and Frailty. (Kamholz)

Fall 2004 - Primary Care in Geriatrics: Addressing Geriatric Problems in Primary Care (Terpenning)