Betsy White, APRN, PhD
@betsywhite25.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, & Practice, Brown University School of Public Health. Geriatric nurse practitioner.
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Check out the NDWS Special Collection just published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. It includes five open access articles on survey questionnaire development, sample frame development, data collection, and more.
This is one article from Special Collection on the NIA-funded National Dementia Workforce Study (@ndws.bsky.social) just published (open access!) in @agsjournal.bsky.social
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September 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Check out the NDWS Special Collection just published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. It includes five open access articles on survey questionnaire development, sample frame development, data collection, and more.
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Are there songs that give you time travel? It turns out that that power—of music to recall vivid memories—can be harnessed to ease dementia symptoms.
🎧 On this month's Humans in Public Health, Professor Ellen McCreedy: https://humans-in-public-health.captivate.fm/episode/the-power-to-transport
🎧 On this month's Humans in Public Health, Professor Ellen McCreedy: https://humans-in-public-health.captivate.fm/episode/the-power-to-transport
September 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Are there songs that give you time travel? It turns out that that power—of music to recall vivid memories—can be harnessed to ease dementia symptoms.
🎧 On this month's Humans in Public Health, Professor Ellen McCreedy: https://humans-in-public-health.captivate.fm/episode/the-power-to-transport
🎧 On this month's Humans in Public Health, Professor Ellen McCreedy: https://humans-in-public-health.captivate.fm/episode/the-power-to-transport
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This is one article from Special Collection on the NIA-funded National Dementia Workforce Study (@ndws.bsky.social) just published (open access!) in @agsjournal.bsky.social
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
cc @joannespetz.bsky.social @um-ihpi.bsky.social @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
cc @joannespetz.bsky.social @um-ihpi.bsky.social @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is one article from Special Collection on the NIA-funded National Dementia Workforce Study (@ndws.bsky.social) just published (open access!) in @agsjournal.bsky.social
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
cc @joannespetz.bsky.social @um-ihpi.bsky.social @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
cc @joannespetz.bsky.social @um-ihpi.bsky.social @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social
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New paper in @jamainternalmed.com!
In it, we use data to examine a commonly held belief about what moving into a nursing home or assisted living facility (also known as a long-term care facility; or LTCF) does to your social life.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In it, we use data to examine a commonly held belief about what moving into a nursing home or assisted living facility (also known as a long-term care facility; or LTCF) does to your social life.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Socializing the Benefits of Entering Long-Term Care
In a 2024 US national poll 33% of older adults (age 50-80 years) reported experiencing loneliness and 29% reported feeling socially isolated.1 Nursing homes and assisted living facilities (collectivel...
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August 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New paper in @jamainternalmed.com!
In it, we use data to examine a commonly held belief about what moving into a nursing home or assisted living facility (also known as a long-term care facility; or LTCF) does to your social life.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In it, we use data to examine a commonly held belief about what moving into a nursing home or assisted living facility (also known as a long-term care facility; or LTCF) does to your social life.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
New in @jamainternalmed.com led by Fangli Geng:
Changes in SNF coding practices & expenditures under the Patient Driven Payment Model
SNFs are coding more (but still less than hospitals), and expenditures have increased for more medically complex patients
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Changes in SNF coding practices & expenditures under the Patient Driven Payment Model
SNFs are coding more (but still less than hospitals), and expenditures have increased for more medically complex patients
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
New in @jamainternalmed.com led by Fangli Geng:
Changes in SNF coding practices & expenditures under the Patient Driven Payment Model
SNFs are coding more (but still less than hospitals), and expenditures have increased for more medically complex patients
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Changes in SNF coding practices & expenditures under the Patient Driven Payment Model
SNFs are coding more (but still less than hospitals), and expenditures have increased for more medically complex patients
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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A little known - but hugely consequential - part of the government’s changes to science funding:
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A Quiet Policy Shift That Could Devastate American Science
Why NIH’s sudden move to multi-year grant funding should alarm every principal investigator and university
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July 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A little known - but hugely consequential - part of the government’s changes to science funding:
open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...
open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...
New paper led by Kate Jun (RAND) on the importance of immigrant staff in mitigating nursing home staffing shortages during the pandemic.
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Immigrant Staff in Nursing Homes: Mitigating Staffing Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Hankyung Jun, Fangli Geng, Brian E. McGarry, Momotazur Rahman, Elizabeth M. White, Emily A Gadbois, David...
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated staffing shortages in U.S. nursing homes. Staff who are immigrants may have stronger tendencies to remain in their jobs than U...
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June 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New paper led by Kate Jun (RAND) on the importance of immigrant staff in mitigating nursing home staffing shortages during the pandemic.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GC9G2...
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GC9G2...
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More than 800,000 immigrants and naturalized citizens comprise 28% of direct care employees at home care agencies, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other long-term care companies. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Dual Threats From Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers - KFF Health News
Understaffed nursing homes face a workforce crisis if President Donald Trump and Republicans further curtail immigration and cut Medicaid.
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June 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
More than 800,000 immigrants and naturalized citizens comprise 28% of direct care employees at home care agencies, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other long-term care companies. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Except the Medicaid cuts will also force nursing homes to close, so these people and their families will be left with no help.
Institutional care isn't optional under Medicaid. Home and community based services care is optional. Cutting Medicaid will lead to more people losing HCBS and be forced into nursing homes, as I wrote for @motherjones.com in January. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's war on Medicaid will institutionalize millions of people
The GOP wants to fund billionaire tax cuts—and let disabled Americans pay the price.
www.motherjones.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Except the Medicaid cuts will also force nursing homes to close, so these people and their families will be left with no help.
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Our founding dean, Terrie Fox Wetle, will receive the Rosenberger Medal of Honor during Commencement and Reunion Weekend. This is the highest honor Brown faculty can bestow, having only been conferred 36 times in the last 100+ years.
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Brown faculty to confer highest honor on preeminent scholars in physics, public health
J. Michael Kosterlitz, a professor of physics, and Terrie Fox Wetle, a professor emerita of health services, policy and practice, will receive the Rosenberger Medal of Honor during Commencement and Re...
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May 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Our founding dean, Terrie Fox Wetle, will receive the Rosenberger Medal of Honor during Commencement and Reunion Weekend. This is the highest honor Brown faculty can bestow, having only been conferred 36 times in the last 100+ years.
www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...
www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...
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Awarded just 36 times, the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal is the highest honor Brown's faculty can bestow. At the University's 257th Commencement it will be awarded to Professor Terrie Fox Wetle, founding dean of Brown's School of Public Health. #Brown2025 #BrownSPH2025 www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...
Brown faculty to confer highest honor on preeminent scholars in physics, public health
J. Michael Kosterlitz, a professor of physics, and Terrie Fox Wetle, a professor emerita of health services, policy and practice, will receive the Rosenberger Medal of Honor during Commencement and Re...
www.brown.edu
May 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Awarded just 36 times, the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal is the highest honor Brown's faculty can bestow. At the University's 257th Commencement it will be awarded to Professor Terrie Fox Wetle, founding dean of Brown's School of Public Health. #Brown2025 #BrownSPH2025 www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...
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Recent job reports show that healthcare has been adding jobs to the economy. Home health has seen robust growth over the last year or so, with some slowing in recent months.
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May 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Recent job reports show that healthcare has been adding jobs to the economy. Home health has seen robust growth over the last year or so, with some slowing in recent months.
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The continued assault on NINR is particularly dumb.
NINR is one of the smallest NIH institutes but it's a critical funder of nursing school faculty.
Schools need faculty to train nurses. Faculty shortages have long been a key rate-limiting factor affecting nurse supply
But who needs nurses? 🤔😑😡
NINR is one of the smallest NIH institutes but it's a critical funder of nursing school faculty.
Schools need faculty to train nurses. Faculty shortages have long been a key rate-limiting factor affecting nurse supply
But who needs nurses? 🤔😑😡
BREAKING: Reports that Trump would try to cut NIH's budget by 40% have come true.
The request released moments ago would:
- Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget
- Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC
- Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas'
There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.
The request released moments ago would:
- Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget
- Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC
- Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas'
There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.
May 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The continued assault on NINR is particularly dumb.
NINR is one of the smallest NIH institutes but it's a critical funder of nursing school faculty.
Schools need faculty to train nurses. Faculty shortages have long been a key rate-limiting factor affecting nurse supply
But who needs nurses? 🤔😑😡
NINR is one of the smallest NIH institutes but it's a critical funder of nursing school faculty.
Schools need faculty to train nurses. Faculty shortages have long been a key rate-limiting factor affecting nurse supply
But who needs nurses? 🤔😑😡
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Congratulations to the 68 new members of Brown's Epsilon Iota Chapter of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health! The students inducted yesterday were recognized for their outstanding performance and devotion to public health. education.sph.brown.edu/students/lif...
April 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Congratulations to the 68 new members of Brown's Epsilon Iota Chapter of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health! The students inducted yesterday were recognized for their outstanding performance and devotion to public health. education.sph.brown.edu/students/lif...
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We know it was neither about protecting nor defending women. I'm sad that #NIH has terminated the #WHI.
Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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April 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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“Older Black Americans are twice as likely as white patients to develop [dementia]. Just as it is not illegal to research breast cancer in women, Mezuk said, it should not be illegal to research dementia in Black and lower-income white Americans.”
www.michigandaily.com/news/researc...
www.michigandaily.com/news/researc...
NIH terminates $13 million grant on dementia
A $12.9 million grant for a study on dementia risks among at-risk U.S. populations was terminated by the National Institutes of Health.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“Older Black Americans are twice as likely as white patients to develop [dementia]. Just as it is not illegal to research breast cancer in women, Mezuk said, it should not be illegal to research dementia in Black and lower-income white Americans.”
www.michigandaily.com/news/researc...
www.michigandaily.com/news/researc...
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I've received additional confirmation, as well as an email I can share publicly.
See the directive NIH grants management staff received from Michelle Bulls, director of extramural policy at NIH:
See the directive NIH grants management staff received from Michelle Bulls, director of extramural policy at NIH:
April 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I've received additional confirmation, as well as an email I can share publicly.
See the directive NIH grants management staff received from Michelle Bulls, director of extramural policy at NIH:
See the directive NIH grants management staff received from Michelle Bulls, director of extramural policy at NIH:
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Nice response to grant terminations: “The NIH called my health equity research ‘antithetical to scientific inquiry’ “ www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/n... via @statnews.com
The NIH called my health equity research ‘antithetical to scientific inquiry’
The NIH canceled Logan Beyer’s health equity research, saying it was “antithetical to scientific research.” That’s completely wrong, she writes.
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April 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Nice response to grant terminations: “The NIH called my health equity research ‘antithetical to scientific inquiry’ “ www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/n... via @statnews.com
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“It’s a very strong network, and it would be easy to wreck, but it took years to build.”
April 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“It’s a very strong network, and it would be easy to wreck, but it took years to build.”
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Harvard FTW: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Harvard FTW: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."
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"There's a real likelihood of unnecessary institutionalization, because of what states would have to do," says Jorwic. Disabled & elderly people who could have stayed home with some assistance might need to enter a nursing home, simply because that's the only way they can get care. #Medicaid
How cutting Medicaid would affect long-term care and family caregivers
The federal program is the biggest source of money for long-term care for the elderly and disabled. Republican proposals to cut its budget could jeopardize supports family and caregivers rely on.
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April 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"There's a real likelihood of unnecessary institutionalization, because of what states would have to do," says Jorwic. Disabled & elderly people who could have stayed home with some assistance might need to enter a nursing home, simply because that's the only way they can get care. #Medicaid
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Low-income workers who are covered by Medicaid are generally in jobs that don't provide health benefits. Without Medicaid, they'd be uninsured.
Mike Johnson: "We have to eliminate people on Medicaid who are not actually eligible to be there. Able-bodied workers for example, young men who should never be on the program at all."
April 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Low-income workers who are covered by Medicaid are generally in jobs that don't provide health benefits. Without Medicaid, they'd be uninsured.
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There are many innovative ways to use new NDWS survey data and linked data sources to understand the diverse dementia care workforce. And, you can receive a pilot grant to do so. Apply by April 28 for up to $100,000 in direct costs for projects using Wave 1 data. www.ndws.org/pilot-grants
April 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
There are many innovative ways to use new NDWS survey data and linked data sources to understand the diverse dementia care workforce. And, you can receive a pilot grant to do so. Apply by April 28 for up to $100,000 in direct costs for projects using Wave 1 data. www.ndws.org/pilot-grants
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A federal judge in Texas blocked a Biden administration rule to boost staffing at nursing homes. KFF Health News walked through the decision from the judge and what it could mean for nursing home staffing. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Federal Judge Blocks Mandate on Nursing Home Staffing - KFF Health News
A federal judge in Texas blocked a Biden administration rule to boost staffing at nursing homes. The decision comes even though many homes lack enough workers to maintain residents’ care.
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April 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A federal judge in Texas blocked a Biden administration rule to boost staffing at nursing homes. KFF Health News walked through the decision from the judge and what it could mean for nursing home staffing. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
