Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)

Gainesville GRECC

• Healthcare Quality
• Patient Safety
• Caregiver Support Services
• Age-Friendly Healthcare

• Fall prevention in hospital and home
• Support for caregivers of aging Veterans with chronic diseases
• Perioperative geriatrics care
• Oral health variables in VA data and their relationship to oral and physical health in older Veterans.
• Predicting drug safety risk using machine learning

• GRECC Education Mobile: regional educational outreach to Veterans on diverse health and wellness topics 
• Quick Reference guide for providers on mental health resources for Veterans
• Resources & Education for Stroke Caregivers' Understanding & Empowerment (RESCUE)
• “RESCUE: The Caregiver Journey After a Loved One’s Lower Limb Loss (222-page bound book)
• Interprofessional trainee education (e.g., Geriatrics boot camp, weekly live virtual geriatric education series, interprofessional poster day)
• Staff education through VISN8 GRECC Annual Conference and Mini-residencies in Geriatrics 
• Dementia and delirium education using simulation-based learning 

• Incorporating the Age-Friendly Health Systems program into VA acute care and post-acute care environments
• Optimizing nutritional care for hospitalized Veterans
• Improving mobility with wearable technologies for peripheral neuropathy
• Virtual Reality Simulated Delirium Environment (VRSDE) – education product for VA clinicians
• Perioperative geriatrics care
• Adaptive sports engagement to improve physical and mental health in older Veterans
• Implementation and Dissemination of the RESCUE Caregiver of Veterans with Lower Limb Loss Intervention

• Schwartz, A. W., Munro, S., Echt, K. V., Mirk, A., Solberg, L. M., & Wozneak, K. (2025). Scaling and spreading age‐friendly care: Early lessons from the VA National Age‐Friendly Action Community.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.19321
• Al Faysal J, Noor-E-Alam M, Young GJ, Lo-Ciganic WH, Goodin AJ, Huang JL, Wilson DL, Park TW, Hasan MM. An explainable machine learning framework for predicting the risk of buprenorphine treatment discontinuation for opioid use disorder among commercially insured individuals. Comput Biol Med. 2024 Jul;177:108493. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108493. Epub 2024 Apr 22. PMID: 38833799.
• Edward B Quinn^1 2, Jennifer H LeLaurin ^1 3, Nathaniel D Eliazar-Macke ¹, Tatiana Orozco ¹, Magda Montague ¹, I Magaly Freytes ^1 4, Constance R Uphold . Effect of a telephone and web-based problem-solving intervention for stroke caregivers on stroke patient activities of daily living: A randomized controlled trial . Clinical Rehabilitation. 2023 Aug;37(8):1062-1073. PMID: 36847253 DOI: 1177/02692155231157301
• Muna Thalji Canales^1 2, Seonkyeong Yang ^3 4, Anders Westanmo ⁵, Xinping Wang ⁶, Dexter Hadley ^3 7, Areef Ishani ⁸, Rajesh Mohandas ⁹, Ronald Shorr ^6 10, Weihsuan Lo-Ciganic ^.  As-Needed Blood Pressure Medication and Adverse Outcomes in VA Hospitals. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Jan 1;185(1):52-60. PMID: 39585709.  PMCID: PMC11589853 (available on 2025-11-25). DOI: 1001/jamainternmed.2024.6213
• Turner K, McNett M, Potter C, Cramer E, Al Taweel M, Shorr RI, Mion LC. Alarm with care-a de-implementation strategy to reduce fall prevention alarm use in US hospitals: a study protocol for a hybrid 2 effectiveness-implementation trial. Implement Sci. 2023 Dec 5;18(1):70. doi: 10.1186/s13012-023-01325-9. PMID: 38053114; PMCID: PMC10696656.
• Citty SW, Chew M, Hiller LD, Maria LA. Enteral nutrition: An underappreciated source of patient safety events. Nutr Clin Pract. 2024 Aug;39(4):784-799. doi: 10.1002/ncp.11153. Epub 2024 Apr 26. PMID: 38667904.

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