In VA, care coordination involves the use of telehealth, disease management, and health informatics technologies to enhance and extend care and case management activities. VA is initially focusing its care coordination effort on the home and using home-telehealth technologies. We describe this range of activities as care coordination/home telehealth (CCHT). We are finding these technologies par...

OBJECTIVES The home is both older Americans' largest asset and their largest consumption good. This article employs new data on the consumption and assets of older Americans to investigate what role the home plays in the economic lives of older adults. METHODS We used 20 years of data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine the asset and consumption trends of four cohorts of older Ame...

Pets are important household members, and their welfare and safety are imperative to the emotional welfare of the family. Displacement of pets after disaster events is a serious matter to families and for public safety at large. People are not willing to evacuate without their non-human family members; many will break through evacuation zones to recover animals left behind. In the 2005 Hurrican...