REPORT ON CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RELATING TO TRAINING IN GERIATRICS OF MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH-PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS AFFILIATED WITH THE VETERAN’ ADMINISTRATION.

SEC. 232. REPORT ON CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RELATING TO TRAINING IN GERIATRICS OF MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH-PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS AFFILIATED WITH THE VETERAN’ ADMINISTRATION. (a) Report.— Not later than August 1, 1988, the Administrator shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a report regarding the Veteran’ Administration’s activities, and the success of those activities, designed to promote increased efforts by affiliated institutions (1) in training health-care professionals to care for older patients, and (2) in research into the aging process and diseases and disabilities associated with aging. (b) Matters To Be Included.— The report under subsection (a) shall include the following: (1) Information, for each academic year from 1980–1981 through 1987–1988, on the number of affiliated institutions, shown by type of institution and type of training, that— (A) have a program through which students or trainees receive education and training in geriatrics through regular rotation through Veterans’ Administration medical centers, nursing homes, domiciliary facilities, or other units providing extended care to veterans; or (B) have a formal program providing education and training in geriatrics; or (C) have both such programs. (2) Information on the number of affiliated institutions (shown by type of institution) that are planning to establish 102 STAT. 534programs as described in paragraph (1), together with a timetable for such actions. (3) Estimates of the costs, both to the Veterans’ Administration and to the affiliated institutions, of the programs described in paragraphs (1) and (2). (4) Estimates of the number of Veterans’ Administration patients receiving care or who will receive care from the students or trainees participating in programs described in paragraphs (1)(A) and (2). (5) A description of the role of the Veterans’ Administration in encouraging the establishment and continuation of the programs described in paragraph (1). (6) The views of the Administrator on the feasibility and desirability of requiring, as a condition of the Veterans’ Administration’s entering into or continuing an affiliation agreement with a health-care professional training institution, the establishment with such institution of the appropriate type of arrangements described in clause (C)(i) or (C)(ii) of section 4101(f)(1) of title 38, United States Code. (c) Definition.— For purposes of this section, the term “affiliated institutions” means medical and other health-professional training schools affiliated with the Veterans’ Administration.