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：
10650397
负责人：
JOANNE E. SPETZ
金额：
$ 40.07万
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/10650397
关键词：
Acceleration Affect Alzheimer&apos s Disease Assisted Living Facilities Caring Collaborations Communities Data Data Set Dementia Discipline Discipline of Nursing Economics Educational workshop Employment Ensure Evaluation Family Friends Funding Growth Health Professional Healthcare Home Health Agency Home Health Aides Household Infrastructure 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 Stage Grouping 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 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，正在接受护理和治疗来自无酬护理合作伙伴和有酬工人的支持。有酬劳动力规模庞大且多样化，雇用人员。数百万人，其中大多数从事不需要大学学位的职业。到目前为止，“直接护理”劳动力包括 240 万名个人护理助理、110 万名护理人员助理和 800,000 名家庭保健助理这些工作人员受到一系列政策和计划的影响。因州、付款人和医疗机构而异，包括不同的培训要求、州关于允许直接护理人员提供哪些服务以及报销的级别法规我们没有什么证据可以指导可能影响直接护理人员的需求和工资的策略。评估和完善政策，同时确保足够规模和准备充分的重要性直接护理劳动力正在增长，还迫切需要确定支持直接护理的有效方法。护理人员与日益多样化的痴呆症患者和患有痴呆症的人群打交道其他医疗保健专业人员。为了推进为痴呆症患者提供服务的直接护理人员的研究，我们将建立 AWARD（促进痴呆症劳动力分析和研究）网络研究人员来了。来自一系列学科（例如公共卫生、经济学、社会学、医学、护理学）他们分布在全国各地，很少集中在任何一个机构，他们往往分属不同的部门。或由具有痴呆症护理专业知识的学者组成的研究单位，限制了跨学科的机会早期研究人员在理论和实践方面的研究合作和指导 AWARD Network 将提供项目和活动来创建强大的医疗保健队伍。从事直接护理劳动力及其在照顾人们中的作用的研究人员群体患有痴呆症。 AWARD 网络的活动将包括：(1) 举办年会，(2) 每月举办一次虚拟会议培训、网络研讨会和讲习班，(3) 组织两个暑期培训学院，(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。 AWARD 网络将开发基础设施和关系，以开展支持研究基于证据的政策和实践，以提高直接护理人员为 PLWD 提供服务的能力。工作最终将为政策领导人和医疗保健组织提供信息，努力确保适当的护理和减少该人群的健康差距。