SAGE & GREIMAN: CORE & HRSA: Understanding personal assistance services experiences in rural states
| MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD | |||
| Program Type | UCEDD | Fiscal Year | 2020 |
| Contact | Rayna Sage | ||
| [email protected] | |||
| Phone | 406-243-5233 | ||
| Project Description | |||
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Research Questions How are PAS workers and PAS needs distributed across geography and how does this correlate with other social and economic factors? What barriers do PAS workers experience in delivering rural PAS services? What strategies do PAS workers use to overcome barriers to delivering rural PAS services? Stage 1: Getting a Lay of the Land: Mapping Worker-to-Need Ratios Create county-level PAS worker-to-need ratios across Alaska, Arizona, and Montana (foci states of a current RTC project), integrating these maps with other spatially-specific context and demographic information (e.g., poverty rates, racial diversity, employment). Stage 2: Participatory Photo Mapping: How Rural PAS Workers Make it Work Participatory Photo Mapping (PPM) is a research method which utilizes digital tools, photo-elicitation interviews, and participatory action research (PAR) practices to generate shared contextual knowledge about individual lived experiences. Methods Twenty-four rural PAS workers in Alaska, Arizona, and Montana (eight per state) will participate in this research project. Participants will be recruited through existing advisory boards and a Consumer Direct Care Network survey. They will be trained in PPM and provided digital devices, if needed. Participant will provide photographs and location information that represent their lived experiences as rural PAS workers. In collaboration with UCSFs Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care, we will conduct photo-elicitation interviews with each participant. Photos, narratives, and location information will be compiled and qualitatively analyzed. Utilizing multiple media methods, Story Maps for each state will be drafted and reviewed with project participants. Finally, project participants and researchers will share finalized Story Maps policymakers and stakeholders. Deliverables Executive Summary Interactive, electronic report (Story Map) |
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