ArticleJournal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society2023
Who Will Care for Rural Older Adults? Measuring the Direct Care Workforce in Rural Areas.
Article in Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Reimagining U.S. social care policy: a commentary on Medicaid strategies to better support individuals with dementia.Frontiers in dementia · 2026Article
- Associations of Place-Based Factors with Service Use and Consumer-Reported Unmet Service Needs Among Older Adults Using Publicly Funded Home- and Community-Based Services in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Long-Term Care Services and Supports Needed for Successful Aging-in-Place: A Critical Review.Annual review of public health · 2025Review
- Home health utilization in the Veterans Health Administration: Are there rural and urban differences?The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- U.S. Rural Population Health and Aging in the 2020s.The Public policy and aging report · 2025Review
- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥ 65 years in rural America, by Census region and select demographic characteristics: 2020.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- Profile of Older Dual-Enrollees Living in Areas with Managed Long-Term Services and Supports.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2024Observational
- Multi-Sector Collaboration to Support Rural Aging.The Public policy and aging report · 2023Article
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Abstract
Using the 2021 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) dataset, we calculate the ratio of direct care workers relative to the population of older adults (ages 65+) across rural and urban areas in the US. We find that there are, on average, 32.9 home health aides per 1000 older adults (age 65+) in rural areas and 50.4 home health aides per 1000 older adults in urban areas. There are, on average, 20.9 nursing assistants per 1000 older adults in rural areas and 25.3 nursing assistants per 1000 older adults in urban areas. There is substantial regional variation. Greater investment needs to be made in improving wages and job quality for direct care workers to attract workers to these critical occupations, especially in rural areas where the need for direct care is greater.
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