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Alexander K. Smith

San Francisco VA Medical Center · US
Area of research
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · Geriatrics and Gerontology
Research interest
Research interests include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Frailty in Older Adults, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research.
h-index
45
citations
8,966
works
291
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Geriatric Syndromes and Mortality Among Hospitalized Older Adults
JAMA Network Open 2026cited by 6position: middledoi
Social Participation Among Older Adults Before and After Long-Term Care Facility Entry
JAMA Internal Medicine 2025cited by 6position: middledoi
“Relationships, Very Quickly, Turn to Nothing”: Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Adaptation to Changing Social Lives Among Persons Living With Dementia and Care Partners
The Gerontologist 2024cited by 35position: middledoi
Prevalence and Sociodemographic Correlates of Chronic Pain Among a Nationally Representative Sample of Older Adults in the United States
Journal of Pain 2024cited by 23position: middledoi
Prognoses Associated With Palliative Performance Scale Scores in Modern Palliative Care Practice
JAMA Network Open 2024cited by 23position: lastdoi
Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?
JAMA Internal Medicine 2024cited by 17position: middledoi
Triage Procedures for Critical Care Resource Allocation During Scarcity
JAMA Network Open 2023cited by 20position: middledoi
The Natural History of Disability and Caregiving Before and After Long-Term Care Entry
JAMA Internal Medicine 2023cited by 18position: middledoi
Development and External Validation of a Mortality Prediction Model for Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Dementia
JAMA Internal Medicine 2022cited by 67position: middledoi
Impact of persistent pain on function, cognition, and well‐being of older adults
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022cited by 41position: lastdoi
Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults Admitted to US ICUs Between 1998 and 2015
CHEST Journal 2022cited by 28position: lastdoi
“You have to be sure that the patient has the full picture”: Adaptation of the Best Case/Worst Case communication tool for geriatric oncology
Journal of Geriatric Oncology 2022cited by 26position: middledoi
Association of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting vs Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Memory Decline in Older Adults Undergoing Coronary Revascularization
JAMA 2021cited by 63position: middledoi
Long‐term individual and population functional outcomes in older adults with atrial fibrillation
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021cited by 47position: middledoi
Changes in older adults' life space during lung cancer treatment: A mixed methods cohort study
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021cited by 17position: middledoi
Meaningful Activities and Sources of Meaning for Community-Dwelling People Living with Dementia
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021cited by 16position: lastdoi
Social Isolation and Loneliness Among San Francisco Bay Area Older Adults During the <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19 <scp>Shelter‐in‐Place</scp> Orders
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020cited by 339position: middledoi
Evaluation of Time to Benefit of Statins for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Adults Aged 50 to 75 Years
JAMA Internal Medicine 2020cited by 116position: middledoi
During <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19, Outpatient Advance Care Planning Is Imperative: We Need All Hands on Deck
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020cited by 50position: middledoi
Family Meetings on Behalf of Patients with Serious Illness
New England Journal of Medicine 2020cited by 34position: middledoi
Pandemic Palliative Care Consultations Spanning State and Institutional Borders
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020cited by 15position: middledoi
A Biopsychosocial Model of Chronic Pain for Older Adults
Pain Medicine 2019cited by 153position: middledoi
Care Settings and Clinical Characteristics of Older Adults with Moderately Severe Dementia
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019cited by 83position: lastdoi
Rehabbed to Death
New England Journal of Medicine 2019cited by 66position: lastdoi
Rehabbed to Death: Breaking the Cycle
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019cited by 23position: lastdoi
Models and Studies of Aging: Executive Summary of a Report from the U13 Conference Series
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019cited by 20position: middledoi
Assessing Risk for Adverse Outcomes in Older Adults: The Need to Include Both Physical Frailty and Cognition
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018cited by 115position: middledoi
Association Between Persistent Pain and Memory Decline and Dementia in a Longitudinal Cohort of Elders
JAMA Internal Medicine 2017cited by 417position: lastdoi
Disability in the individual ADL, IADL, and mobility among older adults: A prospective cohort study
The journal of nutrition health & aging 2017cited by 166position: middledoi
Low Completion and Disparities in Advance Care Planning Activities Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries
JAMA Internal Medicine 2016cited by 155position: lastdoi

Grants

STEM Journeys - From College to Career
NSF2527683$1,872,1182026–2032PIRePORTER
SBIR Phase I: Energy Harvesting Using Protein Nanostructures
NSF2052263$255,7032021–2022PIRePORTER
PostDoctoral Research Fellowship
NSF2002011$150,0002020–2024PIRePORTER
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute for FY 2012 in Taiwan
NSF1209672$5,8362012–2013PIRePORTER
A Combined Mathematics Laboratory and Classroom Environment
NSF0088254$56,6552000–2002PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Kenneth E. Covinsky · San Francisco VA Medical Center13 papers (2012–2025)W. John Boscardin · Lee University12 papers (2012–2024)Irena Cenzer · University of California, San Francisco7 papers (2012–2025)Christine S. Ritchie · Massachusetts General Hospital6 papers (2016–2024)Yinghui Miao · College of Business Administration5 papers (2012–2016)Eric Widera · San Francisco VA Medical Center4 papers (2012–2020)Rebecca L. Sudore · San Francisco VA Medical Center4 papers (2013–2020)Sei J. Lee · George Washington University4 papers (2012–2022)Krista L. Harrison · University of California, San Francisco4 papers (2016–2024)Elizabeth L. Whitlock · University of California, San Francisco4 papers (2017–2022)Christine Miaskowski · University of California, San Francisco3 papers (2019–2022)Sun Young Jeon · San Francisco VA Medical Center3 papers (2021–2022)Kanan Patel · University of California, San Francisco3 papers (2019–2024)John Boscardin · University of California, San Francisco3 papers (2012–2022)Lynn A. Flint · San Francisco VA Medical Center3 papers (2012–2019)Louise C. Walter · San Francisco VA Medical Center3 papers (2013–2022)Kenneth Lam · University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus2 papers (2023–2025)Melisa L. Wong · Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center2 papers (2021–2022)Mara A. Schonberg · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center2 papers (2012–2020)L. Grisell Diaz‐Ramirez · University of California, San Francisco2 papers (2017–2021)