Working Groups

Purpose of the Working Groups

The purpose of the Working Groups is to meet monthly to accelerate collaborative research on measurement and data around a specific dementia home- and community-based services (HCBS) topic:

• Dementia HCBS Access and Unmet Needs: identifying barriers and facilitators to accessing HCBS for persons with dementia; associated outcomes; and how to measure or mitigate unmet HCBS needs for persons with dementia.

• Dementia HCBS Interventions: identifying promising interventions delivered through HCBS or settings for persons with dementia; measuring outcomes associated with those HCBS interventions among persons with dementia.

• Dementia HCBS State Policies: identifying promising state policies on HCBS for persons with dementia; measurement and analytic approaches to understanding the effects of state policies on HCBS for persons with dementia.

Interested in Joining a Working Group?

Our Working Groups meet monthly to discuss goals and topics decided upon by working group leads and members. Please complete the interest survey to receive news and updates related to working group meetings and activities.

Meet the Co-Leads

Dementia HCBS Access and Unmet Needs

Romil Parikh, MBBS, PhD, MPH

Senior Scientist, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

MN Evidence-based Practice Center, LTSS Quality
Division of Health Policy & Management - University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Sijia Wei, PhD, RN, PHN

Postdoctoral Scholar

Feinberg School of Medicine, Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University

Dementia HCBS Interventions

Heather Menne, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University

Kalisha Bonds Johnson, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC

Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator

Emory University Woodruff Nursing, DECIDE Research Lab

Dementia HCBS State Policies

Alice Prendergast, MPH

Senior Research Associate

Georgia Health Policy Center, Georgia State University

Amy Lastuka, PhD

Lead Research Scientist

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington