Advancing Workforce Analysis and Research for Dementia (AWARD) Network

推进痴呆症劳动力分析和研究 (AWARD) 网络

基本信息

批准号：
10436131
负责人：
JOANNE E. SPETZ
金额：
$ 40.05万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-07-01 至 2027-05-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10436131
关键词：
Affect Alzheimer&apos s Disease Assisted Living Facilities Caring Collaborations Communities Data Data Set Dementia Discipline Discipline of Nursing Educational workshop Employment Ensure Evaluation Family Friends Funding Growth Health Professional Healthcare Home Health Agency Home Health Aides Household Infrastructure Institutes Institution Interdisciplinary Study Internships Investigation Measurement Medicine Mentors Neurodegenerative Disorders Nurses Nursing Homes Occupations Outcome Participant Persons Play Policies Population Heterogeneity Public Health Reduce health disparities Regulation Research Research Personnel Research Support Residential Treatment Resources Role Safety Self Care Services Skilled Nursing Facilities Social Workers Sociology Speed System Training Underrepresented Populations United States Wages Work care systems career college community living community setting comparative dementia care evidence base health care service organization health disparity populations health economics meetings payment programs skills statistics theories virtual webinar

项目摘要

ABSTRACT / PROJECT SUMMARY More than 6 million people live with neurodegenerative diseases in the United States, receiving care and support from both unpaid care partners and paid workers. The paid workforce is large and diverse, employing millions of people, most of whom are in occupations that do not require a college degree. The largest occupation by far is the “direct care” workforce, which consists of 2.4 million personal care aides, 1.1 million nursing assistants, and 800,000 home health aides. These workers are affected by a range of policies and programs that vary across states, payers, and healthcare organizations, including differing training requirements, state- level regulations regarding what services direct care workers are allowed to provide, and reimbursement strategies that may affect demand for and wages of direct care workers. We have little evidence to guide evaluation and refinement of policies even as the importance of ensuring an adequately-sized and well-prepared direct care workforce is growing. There also is an urgent need to identify effective approaches to support direct care workers in their interface with an increasingly diverse population of people living with dementia and with other healthcare professionals. To advance research on the direct care workforce that serves people living with dementia, we will establish the AWARD (Advancing Workforce Analysis and Research for Dementia) Network. Workforce researchers come from a range of academic disciplines (e.g. public health, economics, sociology, medicine, nursing) and are spread throughout the nation with few centered at any one institution. They often are in separate departments or research units from scholars with expertise in dementia care, limiting opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaborations and mentoring of early-stage researchers in the theories and practicalities of conducting studies of the healthcare workforce. The AWARD Network will offer programs and activities to create a strong community of researchers engaged in research on the direct care workforce and its role in care for people living with dementia. Activities of the AWARD Network will include: (1) hosting an annual meeting, (2) holding monthly virtual trainings, webinars, and workshops, (3) organizing two Summer Training Institutes, (4) supporting competitive research internships, (5) directly funding pilot research, and (6) developing resources and data to harmonize and accelerate research. The AWARD Network will develop infrastructure and relationships to generate research that supports evidence-based policy and practice to advance the capacity of the direct care workforce in serving PLWD. This work will ultimately inform policy leaders and healthcare organizations striving to ensure appropriate care and reduce health disparities for this population.

摘要 /项目摘要在美国有超过600万人患有神经退行性疾病，接受护理和未付护理伙伴和有偿工人的支持。付费劳动力大而多样化，雇用数百万的人，其中大多数人都不需要大学学位。最大的占领到目前为止，“直接护理”劳动力由240万个人护理助手和110万护士组成助手和800,000家家庭健康助手。这些工人受一系列政策和计划的影响各州，付款人和医疗保健组织的各不相同，包括不同的培训要求，州 - 有关允许哪些服务直接护理人员提供和报销的级别法规可能影响直接护理人员需求和工资的策略。我们几乎没有证据可以指导评估和改进政策，即使确保足够尺寸且准备充分的重要性直接护理员工正在增长。迫切需要确定支持直接的有效方法护理人员与痴呆症患者越来越多样化的人群和其他医疗保健专业人员。为了提高对为痴呆症患者服务的直接护理员工的研究，我们将建立该奖项（促进痴呆症的劳动力分析和研究）网络。劳动力研究人员来了来自一系列学科（例如，公共卫生，经济学，社会学，医学，护士），是在全国范围内散布，很少有人以任何一个机构为中心。他们经常在单独的部门或具有痴呆症护理专业知识的学者的研究单位，限制了跨学科的机会研究合作和早期研究人员在进行的理论和实践中的心理化医疗保健劳动力的研究。奖励网络将提供计划和活动，以创造强大的研究人员社区从事直接护理劳动力的研究及其在护理中的角色患有痴呆症。奖励网络的活动将包括：（1）举行年度会议，（2）举行每月虚拟培训，网络研讨会和研讨会，（3）组织两个夏季培训机构，（4）支持竞争性研究实习，（5）直接资助试点研究，以及（6）开发资源和数据以协调和加速研究。奖励网络将开发基础架构和关系，以产生支持基于循证的政策和实践，以提高直接护理员工在为PLWD服务方面的能力。这工作最终将为政策领导人和医疗保健组织提供信息，以确保适当的护理和减少该人群的健康分布。