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Strengthening the Direct Care Workforce
for Long-Term Services and Supports:

Suggested Approaches From a National Panel of Experts

 

Linda S. Noelker, PhD, Miriam Rose, MEd, Farida K. Ejaz, PhD,
Melissa Castora-Binkley, MA, and Richard Browdie, MBA

 

The authors would like to thank Robert Hornyak (Director of Home and Community-Based Programs), John Wren (Aging Services Program Officer), and Michelle Washko (PhD, Aging Services Specialist) at the Administration on Aging, who participated in the panel's work. 

We would also like to acknowledge the following panel members who generously shared their time and knowledge: 

Lisa Alecxih (MPA, Vice President, The Lewin Group)

Roger Auerbach (JD, President, Auerbach Consulting)

Clarence Brown (PhD, Executive Director, District of Columbia Office on Aging)

Lynn Kellogg (MSW, MPA, CEO, Region IV AAA, MI)

Peter Kemper (PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Administration, The Pennsylvania State University )

Kathy Leitch (MSW, Assistant Secretary, Aging and Disability Services Administration, WA)

Carol O'Shaughnessy, ex-officio panel member (MA, Principal Policy Analyst, National Health Policy Forum)

Martha Roherty (MPP, Executive Director, National Association of State Units on Aging)

Joseph Ruby (MA, President/CEO, Region 10B AAA, OH)

Robyn Stone (DrPH, Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Aging Services; Senior Vice President for Research, American Association of Home and Services for the Aging)

Donna Wagner (PhD, Professor of Gerontology and Health Sciences, Towson University ).

This work was funded under a cooperative agreement between the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging and the U.S. Administration on Aging (Grant No. 90-AM-3142). The views expressed in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Administration on Aging or its staff.

 

 

 

 

 

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