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April 2019

Can a volunteer ‘Care Corps’ create a pipeline of long-term care workers? (MemoryWell)

By In the News

MemoryWell quoted Donna Benton in an article on a proposed “Care Corps” modeled after AmeriCorps. Benton said the concept of a care corps offers promise for creating a better trained workforce for the future. “In the worst case scenario, even if they don’t stay in the field, we will train people now, and then in 40 or 50 years, when they do become caregivers—because they will—they will have that training,”

Cancer drug shortages have little effect on chemotherapy use, study finds (Philadelphia Inquirer)

By In the News

The Philadelphia Inquirer featured research by Mireille Jacobson of the USC Leonard Davis School and USC Schaeffer Center on whether recorded shortages of certain chemotherapy drugs impacted patient care. Jacobson found that although some of the chemotherapy drugs most frequently used Medicare patients had a shortage listed by the Food and Drug Administration, there was no significant impact on patient care.

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