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Joanne Spetz, PhD
Associate Director of Research, Healthforce Center at UCSF. Professor at the Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and the School of Nursing at University of California, San Francisco
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Topics: Behavioral Health, Primary Care
This article assesses rural/urban prescribing patterns in older adults with serious mental issues by primary care physicians and behavioral health specialists, and by clinician type.
Topics: Behavioral Health, Long-Term Care
This report examines prescribing patterns for common psychiatric medications and for opioid and non-opioid analgesics in long-term nursing home residents with dementia by clinician specialty and provider type.
Topics: COVID-19, Long-Term Care
This report examines the rates of multiple job holding and characteristics of multiple job holders in the long- term care workforce.
Topics: COVID-19, Nursing, Staffing, Workforce Demand, Workforce Supply
This report explores how direct care workers and workers from similar entry-level occupations became unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic; to what extent the skills of displaced workers align with those of direct care occupations; and how many displaced workers re-entered the workforce (including into direct care jobs) within the following year.
Topics: Long-Term Care
This article discusses wage differences between RNs working in LTC (eg, nursing homes, home health) and non-LTC settings (eg, hospitals, ambulatory care) and whether differences are associated with the characteristics of the RN workforce between and within settings.
