The current study is a 16-week intervention given at a cost of $3,500 to $4,000 per person—that's the cost of about two weeks of nursing home care, Szanton said—and based on preliminary data she anticipates seeing a significant reduction in hospital and nursing home admissions among the 500 participants, at a three-year net savings of $2 million. And she's pleased with the improvements in participants’ lives. “We tend to focus on blood pressure,” Szanton said, “but the more important questions are, ‘Can you stand long enough to cook?’ and ‘Can you get into the tub?’ They want to get down the stairs to get to church or wash their own hair.