1. Susan C. Miller ( ) is a professor of health services, policy, and practice at the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University School of Public Health, in Providence, Rhode Island.
2. Orna Intrator is director of the Geriatrics and Extended Care Data Analysis Center (GECDAC) at the Canandaigua Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) and a professor of public health sciences at the University of Rochester, both in New York.
3. Winifred Scott is a health science specialist at GECDAC and at the Health Economics Resource Center at the Palo Alto VAMC, in Menlo Park, California.
4. Scott T. Shreve is national director of hospice and palliative care at the Lebanon VAMC, in Pennsylvania.
5. Ciaran S. Phibbs is associate director of GECDAC and a health economist at the Health Economics Resource Center at the Palo Alto VAMC and a professor of neonatology at Stanford University, both in California.
6. Bruce Kinosian is associate director of GECDAC at the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VAMC, and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
7. Richard M. Allman is chief consultant in the Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, in Washington, D.C.
8. Thomas E. Edes is executive director of geriatrics and extended care operations in the Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care services, Department of Veterans Affairs.