About the Authors

Megan Shepherd-Banigan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

megan.shepherd-banigan@va.gov, mes86@duke.edu, @BaniganMegan

Affiliations Durham VA Health Care System, Durham, NC, United States of America, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Durham, NC, United States of America, Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Services Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Katherine E. M. Miller

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Services Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

S. Nicole Hastings

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Durham VA Health Care System, Durham, NC, United States of America, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, NC, United States of America, Center for the Study of Aging, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America

Loren J. Schleiden

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Joshua M. Thorpe

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.