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Appendix B: The Paid Health Care Workforce
Pages 285-292

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From page 285...
... . The health care system and the entities that provide direct care to people living with dementia (both in their homes and in residential facilities)
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From page 286...
... Predicted shortages of generalist health care providers needed for the second prong of the IOM approach (enhancing the competence of all individuals in the delivery of health care) are also likely to affect people living with dementia.
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From page 287...
... . The 2015 IOM report Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life suggests enhancing the curricula for medical schools, increasing interprofessional collaboration, and building communications skills in graduate and undergraduate education to better prepare physicians, nurses, and other professional health care workers to meet patients' basic palliative care needs, suggestions that mirror similar findings regarding health care delivery for older adults described below (IOM, 2015)
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From page 288...
... . Immigrants who serve as health care workers may not be fluent English speakers and may lack knowledge of U.S.
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... The 2020 National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers also addressed workforce issues and identified several specific gaps and opportunities for further research, including the following (National Institute on Aging, 2020) : 2.4 Develop and evaluate training for direct care workers to iden tify specific competencies and modalities that best contribute to improved health, quality of life, and financial and social outcomes for PLWD [persons living with dementia]
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From page 290...
... In Training to Serve People with Dementia: Is our Health Care System Ready? Justice in Aging.
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From page 291...
... . Upgrading California's health care workforce: The impact of political action and unionization.
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... . Preparing the health care workforce to care for adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
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