Your Help Needed: National Dementia Workforce Study Surveys Underway
The National Dementia Workforce Study, sponsored by the NIH National Institute on Aging, is conducting surveys of the dementia care workforce to understand the challenges you and your staff face. We hope your organization will participate if invited. Your voices can make a big impact on how we understand the dementia care workforce.
NDWS is currently in Year 1 of the surveys, but each of the four will be conducted annually over the next five years:
- Community Clinician,
- Nursing Home Staff,
- Assisted Living Staff, and
- Home Care Staff (which also includes home health).
The staff surveys each have an administrator survey to learn more about how each organization operates.
Survey data and other linked data sources will create an unprecedented resource for researchers to answer critical questions about the workforce and its impact on care and outcomes for persons living with dementia. The basic aim is that the surveys and associated research are used to improve dementia care.
We appreciate your support of this new study, led by teams at the University of Michigan and the University of California, San Francisco, with several other university-based and non-profit partners. The Alzheimer’s Association is also collaborating.
Learn more HERE.
