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Long-Term Care

Long-term care refers to the services that support activities of daily living among individuals who can no longer conduct the tasks of everyday life, such as bathing, dressing, and eating, on their own. These individuals typically are older and have multiple chronic medical conditions, requiring increasingly collaborative treatment methods involving many practitioners. Treatment locations can include individuals’ own homes or assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.

Authors: Timothy Bates | Susan Chapman

Topics: Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), Long-Term Care, Workforce Supply

May 4, 2023
This brief describes a conceptual approach to constructing a long-term care workforce shortage designation, similar in scope to existing Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) health professional shortage area (HPSA) designations.
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Authors: Susan Chapman | Lillie Greiman | Timothy Bates | Laura Wagner | Ari Lissau | Kirsi Toivanen-Atilla | Rayana Sage

Topics: Long-Term Care, Rural Health, Workforce Supply

October 24, 2022
This Health Affairs article uses the 2013-2017 data from the American Community Survey and the Office of Management and Budget to analyze potential need for and supply of personal care services across the US.
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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: Laura Wagner | Timothy Bates | Joanne Spetz

Topics: Long-Term Care

October 1, 2021
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.
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