About the Authors

Rebecca T. Brown

rebecca.brown@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care, San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kiya D. Komaiko

Affiliations Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care, San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ying Shi

Affiliation Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care, San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Kathy Z. Fung

Affiliation Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care, San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

W. John Boscardin

Affiliations Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care, San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alvin Au-Yeung

Affiliations Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care, San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Gary Tarasovsky

Affiliation Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care, San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Riya Jacob

Affiliations Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care, San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael A. Steinman

Affiliations Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care, San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RTB KDK YS KZF WJB MAS. Data curation: KDK YS KZF AA GT RJ. Formal analysis: YS KZF GT. Funding acquisition: RTB MAS. Investigation: RTB, KDK, AA, RJ. Methodology: RTB KDK YS KZF WJB MAS. Project administration: KDK AA. Resources: RTB MAS. Software: YS KZF WJB. Supervision: RTB WJB MAS. Validation: RTB KDK YS KZF WJB AA RJ GT MAS. Visualization: RTB AA. Writing – original draft: RTB. Writing – review & editing: RTB KDK YS KZF WJB AA RJ GT MAS.