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Experts Set Research and Demonstration Agenda to Enhance Long-Term Care Workforce
Developing strategies to recruit and retain frontline workers in long-term care
Project staff at the Urban Institute worked with experts in the field to develop recommendations for a research and demonstration agenda to improve the recruitment and retention of frontline long-term care workers.
Key Results
- Project staff drafted a comprehensive 44-page literature review, Who Will Care for Us? A Research and Demonstration Agenda for Frontline Long-Term Care Workers.
- The Urban Institute's Institute for the Future of Aging Services published Frontline Long-Term Care Worker Project: Summaries of the Three Technical Expert Panel Meetings.
- The U.S. Department of Health ad Human Services (HHS) included the technical expert panels' recommendations in a May 14, 2003, report to Congress, The Future Supply of Long-Term Care Workers in Relation to the Aging Baby Boom Generation. The report was issued jointly by HHS and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Funding
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provided $160,791 from December 2000 to July 2003 in partial support of this unsolicited project.