The Professional Workforce of People Who Provide Dementia Care

In this episode of Minding Memory, Matt & Donovan speak with Dr. Joanne Spetz, the Brenda and Jeffrey L. Kang Presidential Chair in Healthcare Finance and Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Joanne talks with Matt & Donovan about who makes up the professional workforce of people who provide dementia care and how these individuals play a critical role in the delivery of services. Joanne also discusses how different professional roles interact across setting of care. Lastly, Joanne introduces a new study she is working on with Donovan called the National Dementia Workforce Study (NDWS) that will be surveying a large group of clinicians who provide care for people living with dementia.

Faculty Bio: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/joanne.spetz

Article Referenced in Podcast:

Candon M, Bergman A, Rose A, Song H, David G, Spetz J. The Relationship Between Scope of Practice Laws for Task Delegation and Nurse Turnover in Home Health. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2023 Nov;24(11):1773-1778.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2023.07.023. Epub 2023 Aug 24. PMID: 37634547; PMCID: PMC10735229.

Previous Minding Memory Episodes on Dementia & Family Caregiving:

S1Ep9: Caregiving for individuals with Dementia (with Amanda Leggett)

S1Ep10: What is it like to be a Caregiver for a Person Living with Dementia? (with Peggy Arden)

The transcript for this episode can be found here.

CAPRA Website: http://capra.med.umich.edu/

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