Aging Program Manager
VHA Office of Rural Health
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Bret Hicken is the Aging Program Manager with the VHA Office of Rural Health’s Veterans Rural Health Resource Center in Salt Lake City, UT. He is also a psychologist at the George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatrics in the School of Medicine at the University of Utah. He received his PhD in clinical/medical psychology and Masters of Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed a clinical internship at the Salt Lake City VA and a postdoctoral fellowship with the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) at VA Salt Lake City. His research and policy interests focus on improving access to and quality of healthcare for aging rural veterans, supporting caregivers of rural veterans with dementia, management of problematic behaviors in older adults with cognitive problems, and VA/community partnerships to support aging in place for rural veterans.
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Advancing Rural Geriatric Services: Lessons From the Veterans Health Administration
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