# The National Dementia Workforce Study

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $16,199,445

## Abstract

ABSTRACT: Overall
The National Dementia Workforce Study (NDWS) will be launched by a national team of experts in clinical care
of persons living with dementia, survey research, and health workforce research. The goal of the NDWS data
infrastructure is to allow researchers and policymakers to ask and answer scientific questions to help build the
workforce of clinicians and other professional care providers required by the growing population of persons
living with dementia in the U.S. The core of NDWS will be four surveys that reflect key elements of the
professional dementia care workforce in the U.S.: Community Clinicians, Nursing Home Staff, Home Care
Staff, and Assisted Living Staff. In addition to these surveys, the NDWS team will develop a variety of
additional data sources that can be linked with the surveys in order to maximize the scientific potential of the
surveys. The NDWS team includes the country’s leading dementia care, workforce, and survey researchers as
Co-Investigators and Consultants, and the project’s activities will be conducted through five cores: 1)
Administrative (Lead: Donovan Maust, MD, MS, and Co-Lead: Joanne Spetz, PhD); 2) Screening and Survey
Instrument Development (Co-Leads: Joanne Spetz, PhD, and James Wagner, PhD); 3) Administrative Data
Transfer, Masking, Access, and Ethics (Lead: Steven Marcus, PhD); 4) Data Collection, Linkages, Cleaning,
and Sharing (Lead: James Wagner, PhD); and 5) Research Studies (Lead: Laura Wagner, PhD, RN). The
overall aims are to: 1) Launch a family of four nationally representative professional dementia workforce
surveys covering the key care delivery settings in the U.S.; 2) Through the National Dementia Workforce
Study, build a data infrastructure surrounding the dementia workforce surveys that allows researchers to
generate critical insights into the professional dementia care workforce and associated outcomes for PLWD;
and 3) Develop and expand the community of researchers focused on the professional dementia care
workforce overall and that use the National Dementia Workforce Study data infrastructure.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10932946
- **Project number:** 5U54AG084520-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** DONOVAN T MAUST
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $16,199,445
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-09-30 → 2028-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10932946

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10932946, The National Dementia Workforce Study (5U54AG084520-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10932946. Licensed CC0.

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