Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Director, UNC Palliative Care Program, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Claire Ankuda, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Associate Director of Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Courtney Van Houtven, PhD
Professor, Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine and Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Learning Objectives
- Understand the concept of home time as a patient‑centered, system‑relevant outcome measure and how it is operationalized across different clinical contexts.
- Recognize the limitations, measurement challenges, and equity concerns associated with using home time as an outcome or performance metric in pragmatic clinical trials.
- Reflect on emerging evidence and future directions for developing more person‑centered home time measures that better capture quality of life for older adults and caregivers.