The Veterans Health Administration's Medical Foster Home Program: Where Heroes Meet (Older) Angels.

Cari Levy, Leah Haverhals, Carrie Gilman, Chelsea Manheim

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Article in Generations (San Francisco, Calif.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Cari LevyVA Eastern Colorado Health Care System in Denver, Colorado.

Leah HaverhalsVA Eastern Colorado Health Care System.

Carrie GilmanVA Eastern Colorado Health Care System.

Chelsea ManheimVA Eastern Colorado Health Care System.

Funding

Medical Foster Homes: A Safe, Cost Effective Substitute for Nursing Homes?I01HX000973 · VA · VA EASTERN COLORADO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM · PI LEVY, CARI RENEE · 2013 to 2013

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HSRD VA I01 HX000973

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Veterans Health Administration's Medical Foster Home (MFH) program is a long-term-care model in which veterans requiring personalized nursing home-level care live in the homes of private caregivers, who are recruited and screened by a VA MFH program coordinator. Often, these caregivers are older adults who are nearer to or older than retirement age. Seven years of research into the program has shown benefits in building community and improving quality of life for veterans, caregivers, and family members of veterans living in MFHs across the United States.

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caregiverslong-term caremedical foster homesveteransVeterans Health Administration

Identifiers

PMID31660003

PMCPMC6816278

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