Patient/Caregiver Screening and Group Assignment After clinical champions at recruitment sites explained the main components of the project, patients provided verbal consent to have their contact information forwarded to research staff. Next, research staff contacted patients who had expressed interest by phone, described the project in more detail, and, after getting verbal consent, administered the screening measures (basic demographics, the Vulnerable Elders Survey-13(VES), Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status-modified [TICS-m]) over the telephone. Eligible patients directly nominated a "family" caregiver (related by blood or marriage or fictive kin) for study participation.