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ASPE produces policy research focusing on older adults, Medicare, dual-eligible beneficiaries, individuals with disabilities, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and caregivers. Resources relating to aging and disability include advance directives, end-of-life care planning, elder abuse, long-term services and supports (LTSS), home and community-based services (HCBS), and healthy aging.
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NAPA
The National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA) creates an important opportunity to build upon and leverage HHS programs and other federal efforts to help change the trajectory of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) with input from a public-private Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services.
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Advanced SearchFederal Workforce Development Programs: A New Opportunity for Recruiting and Retaining Direct Care Workers in the Long-Term Care Field
The purpose of this report is to describe five federal workforce development programs and how some long-term care agencies and service providers use them to improve the recruitment and retention of direct care workers.
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A Compendium of Intervention and Descriptive Studies Designed to Promote the Health of Caregivers for Older Adults
Donna Rabiner, PhD, Janet O'Keeffe, PhD, and David Brown, MA RTI International
Estimates of the Risk of Long-Term Care: Assisted Living and Nursing Home Facilities
The goal of this report is to identify the individual-level factors associated with nursing home and assisted living entry and determine whether and how they differ. While it is possible to estimate a simple model of entry into these facilities at some point in the observation period, a more useful model would make use of data on elapsed time until such a transition.
State-Based Initiatives to Improve the Recruitment and Retention of the Paraprofessional Long-Term Care Workforce
The Department of Health and Human Services awarded a contract to launch a national initiative designed to improve recruitment and retention of direct care workers in the long-term care field.
Lessons from the Implementation of Cash and Counseling in Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Experiences of Workers Hired Under Consumer Direction in Arkansas
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Experiences of Workers Hired Under Consumer Direction in Arkansas Executive Summary
State Nursing Home Quality Improvement Programs: Site Visit and Synthesis Report
Alan White, Ph.D., Barbara Manard, Ph.D., Deborah Deitz, BSN, Terry Moore, MPH, RN, Donna Hurd, MSN, Christine Landino, MSW, MPH, Jennie Harvell, M.Ed. Abt Associates, Inc.
The Future Supply of Long-Term Care Workers in Relation to the Aging Baby Boom Generation
One of the challenges facing the U.S. in the 21st Century will be to ensure that individuals throughout their life will have the supports they need and will be treated with dignity. For the growing population of the elderly and people with disabilities, ensuring the adequacy and availability of direct care workers is key to meeting this ideal.
State Nursing Home Quality Improvement Programs: Site Visit and Synthesis Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services State Nursing Home Quality Improvement Programs: Site Visit and Synthesis Report Executive Summary