Health Affairs Publishes Two Age-Friendly Health Papers in December Issue
The December 2021 issue of Health Affairs includes two Age-Friendly Health series papers.
The series includes health policy research, analysis and commentary related to building health systems that provide high quality evidence-based health care to older adults. The two Health Affairs papers in this issue are:
- Friedman et al, “Trends In Home Care Versus Nursing Home Workforce Sizes: Are States Converging Or Diverging Over Time?” There is strong preference among people with disabling conditions to receive care at home rather than in an institutional setting. Differences in state policies may make this more feasible in some states than others. Yet no study to date has examined trends in the long-term care workforce across states. Using state-level data on direct care workers from the period 2009–20, the researchers examine trends in the sizes of the nursing home and home care workforces. They show that since 2009 most states have increased the size of their home care workforces and decreased the size of their nursing home workforces, but there is substantial variation across states in the magnitude of these changes. In addition, the gap between leading and lagging states in home care workforce size has grown over time. This suggests that more targeted efforts may be needed to ensure that people with disabling conditions can have their needs met in their desired setting across the nation.
- Nazareth, Narrative Matters: “To Uncover My Mother’s Genetic Disorder, I Had To Lead The Way” A genetic counselor uses her own resources to identify the root cause of her mother’s changing personality.
Health Affairs has also released a podcast interview with Dr. Friedman, "Esther Friedman Explains Home Care and Nursing Home Workforce Changes."
To go to the first abstract, click here.
To go to the Narrative Matters abstract, click here.
To listen to the podcast, "Esther Friedman Explains Home Care and Nursing Home Workforce Changes," click here.
To go to Health Affairs Age-Friendly Health series, click here.
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