Predictors of attrition in older users of a home-based monitoring and health information delivery system.

Objective: This retrospective study evaluated predictors of attrition in data from veterans with chronic medical conditions who were enrolled in a Veterans Administration Care Coordination Home Telehealth program.

Subjects And Methods: Data were collected over a 4-year period. The enrolled sample was 73 veterans, 55.

VA Puget Sound Telemental Health Service to rural veterans: a growing program.

The VA Puget Sound Health Care System Telemental Health program connects veterans with psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers via live clinical video teleconferencing. Providers deliver care to veterans in rural Veteran Affairs medical centers, community-based outpatient clinics and residences, and thus, increase access to specialty mental health care for rural and medically underserved veteran communities.

Reaching out to older veterans in need: the Elko clinic demonstration project.

Context: The challenge of providing meaningful health care services to veterans living in rural communities is a major public health concern that involves redefining the traditional facility-based model of care delivery employed in urban areas.

Purpose: This paper describes the steps of a demonstration project, the Elko Telehealth Outreach Clinic. The clinic, located in Elko, Nevada, was created to meet the health care needs of veterans who expressed a desire for greater access to VA services.

The Care Coordination Home Telehealth (CCHT) rural demonstration project: a symptom-based approach for serving older veterans in remote geographical settings.

Introduction: Innovative healthcare delivery strategies are needed to address the healthcare needs of the 3.5 million older veterans living in US rural areas who face unique healthcare delivery challenges, including transportation barriers, poverty, and limited access to health professions and community-based programs. The care coordination home telehealth (CCHT) rural demonstration project was developed to address the mismatch between the timely identification of patient needs and the care delivered by the traditional disease-oriented institutionally-based healthcare delivery system for older rural veterans.