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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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Authors: Joanne Spetz | Jason Flatt

Topics: Community Health Centers, Emerging Models and Innovations, Staffing

March 27, 2023
This article examines differences in staffing between adult day health centers (ADHCs) that offer Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD) services versus those that do not, and whether staffing levels are associated with the percentage of ADHC participants with ADRD and their outcomes.
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Authors: Urlike Muench | Matthew Jura | Cindy Park Thomas | Jennifer Perloff | Joanne Spetz

Topics: Behavioral Health, Primary Care

December 9, 2022
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.
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Authors: Ulrike Muench | Matthew Jura | Zoe Samson | Todd Monroe | Joanne Spetz

Topics: Behavioral Health, Long-Term Care

May 31, 2022
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.
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Authors: Timothy Bates | Joanne Spetz | Laura Wagner

Topics: COVID-19, Long-Term Care

March 23, 2022
This report examines the rates of multiple job holding and characteristics of multiple job holders in the long- term care workforce.
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Authors: Stephen McCall | Kezia Scales | Joanne Spetz

Topics: COVID-19, Nursing, Staffing, Workforce Demand, Workforce Supply

October 20, 2021
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.
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