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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Monday, December 27, 2021
Dear John
A recent Age-Friendly Health article and podcast focused on trends in
home care versus nursing home workforce sizes.
Age-Friendly Health
A December article, part of the Age-Friendly Health initiative supported
by the John A. Hartford Foundation, examined direct care workers in
long-term care
.
Home care workers, including personal care aides and nursing assistants,
make up one-fifth of the US health care workforce. According to research
by Esther Friedman and colleagues, almost all states experienced an
increase in the size of their home care workforce between 2009 and 2020,
and most saw a decrease in their nursing home workforce, relative to the
number of people who need these services.
Friedman dove deeper into their research on an episode of A Health
Podyssey
podcast earlier this month.
December's Narrative Matters essay
is also about aging and health. In it, author Shivani Nazareth, a
genetic counselor, described using her own resources to identify the
root cause of her mother's changing personality.
For more Age-Friendly Health content
from Health Affairs, visit our topic landing page.
Daily Digest
Trends in Home Care Versus Nursing Home Workforce Sizes: Are States
Converging or Diverging Over Time?
Esther Friedman et al.
Podcast: Esther Friedman Explains Home Care and Nursing Home Workforce
Changes
Alan Weil and Esther Friedman
To Uncover My Mother's Genetic Disorder, I Had To Lead The Way
Shivani Nazareth
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