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Robert Newcomer, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences
3333 California St., #LHts-455
San Francisco, CA 94143-0612

Telephone:  (415) 476-1408      Fax:  476-6552
Email:  robert.newcomer@ucsf.edu

Research

My work is directed to concerns of health care financing, quality assurance, and quality improvement -- mostly in long term care or the interface between acute and long term care. This work has involved outcomes studies of disease management, disability prevention, and caregiver support interventions; and descriptive studies of state long term care delivery systems (including supportive housing).

Current Projects

Co-Principal Investigator. Center for Personal Assistance Services.
Funded by the Department of Education, National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research. (Charlene Harrington, Principal Investigator).
Budget $4.5 million; fiscal years 2003-07.

Co-Principal Investigator. Caregiver Support Program.
Funded by the Administration on Aging (grant # AoA-01-08) via a subcontract with Contra Costa County Aging and Adult Services.
Total budget $960,000; subcontract to UCSF $120,000) 2002-2005.

Grants Submitted and Under Review

2004 - Principal Investigator. Caregiver outcomes after the nursing home placement of a family member. Alzheimer's Association. Total budget $150,000.

2005 - Principal Investigator. Consumer Directed Care, Work-related Injury, and the Quality of Personal Assistance Services. National Institute for Disability & Rehabilitation Research. Budget $150,00.

2005 - Principal Investigator. Occupational Injury Among Personal Assistance Workers. National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health. Budget $659,129.

Professional Activities

• Gerontological Society of America (Fellow)
• American Public Health Association
• Association for Health Services Research (Fellow)
• American Sociological Association

Teaching

• S289A/289B Advanced Quantitative Research Methods (3 units). This is a graduate level course offered annually in the Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences for doctoral students in sociology and or nursing. The course content is research design and a practicum in proposal development.
• S249 Special Studies. These are varying unit directed readings subjects undertaken by students to augment their study in an area of interest to them. Typically these involve literature reviews of research methods related to their likely dissertation area or substantive content related to an area of my expertise. Topics since 1995 have included survey research methods, specialized housing, clinical protocols, and community indicator systems. Enrollment units vary from 1 to 4 units depending on the needs and interests of the student. At least three discussion sessions are held quarterly with an enrolled student to cover their concerns and to provide feedback on their written materials.

Selected Publications

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2000

Fox, P., C. Yordi, R. Newcomer. Lessons learned from the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration. Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders, 14(2):87-93.

Newcomer, R. Community-Level Indicators of Chronic Health Conditions and Services. Journal for Healthcare Quality, 22(5):29-33.

Newcomer, R., C. Harrington, R. Kane. Implementing the Second Generation Social Health Maintenance Organization. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 48(7):829-34

Swan, J., R. Newcomer. A simulation of the effects of nursing home licensing policy and residential care supply on nursing home case mix in four states. Health Care Financing Review 21(3):203-30.

Yordi, C., R. DuNah, P. Fox, A. Wilkinson, R. Newcomer. Caregiver supports: Outcomes from the Medicare Alzheimer's disease demonstration. Dementia Review-Economic Aspects.

2001

Newcomer, R., P. Fox, C. Harrington. Health & long term care for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: policy research issues. Journal of Aging and Mental Health, 5 (Supplement 1):126-139.

Newcomer, R., J. Swan, S. Karon. Residential care supply and nursing home case mix. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 15(1&2):57-66.

Newcomer, R., J. Swan, S. Karon, W. Bigelow, C. Harrington, D. Zimmerman. Residential care supply and the cognitive and physical problem case mix in nursing homes. Journal of Aging and Health, 13(2):217-247.

2002

Newcomer, R., C. Harrington, R Kane. Challenges and accomplishments of the Second Generation Social Health Maintenance Organization. The Gerontologist, 42(6):843-852

Newcomer, R. T. Kang, S. Kaye, M. LaPlante. Housing Changes and Moves into Supportive Housing Among Adults with Disabilities. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 12(4):268-79.

Newcomer, R., R. Maynard. Thoughts on National and Community-Level Supportive Housing Data Systems. Seniors Housing & Care Journal, 10(1):55-54.

Yaffe, K., P. Fox, R. Newcomer, L. Sands, K. Lindquist, K. Dane, K. Covinsky. Patient and Caregiver Characteristics and Nursing Home Placement in Patients With Dementia. Journal of the American Medical Association, 287(16):2090-2097.

2003

Covinsky KE, R. Newcomer, P. Fox, J. Wood, L. Sands, K. Dane, K. Yaffe. Patient and Caregiver Characteristics Associated With Depression in Caregivers of Patients With Dementia. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 18(12):1006-14

Gaugler, J., RL Kane, RA Kane, T Clay, R Newcomer. Predicting institutionalization of cognitively impaired older people: utilizing dynamic predictors of change. The Gerontologist, 43(2):219-229

Graves, T, M Slater, V Maravilla, L Reissler P Faculjak, R Newcomer. Implementing an Early Intervention Case Management Program in Three Medical Groups. The Care Manager, 14(5):48-52

Holland, S, J Greenberg, L Tidwell, R Newcomer. Preventing disability through community-based health coaching. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 51:1-5.

Newcomer, R. T. Covinsky, K., Clay, K. Yaffe. Predicting 12-Month Mortality for Persons with Dementia. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 58(3):S187-S198.

2004

Gaugler, JE, CR Leach, T Clay, R Newcomer. Predictors of nursing home placement on African Americans with dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 52(3):445-52.

Leutz, W, T Ford, M Leung, M Mueller, L Nonnenkamp, R Newcomer. Medicare managed care and frail elders: Lessons from Social HMOs. Care Management Journals: Journal of Long Term Home Health Care 4(3):161-169.

Newcomer, R, Maravilla, V, Faculjak, P, Graves, MT. Outcomes of Preventive Case Management Among High Risk Elderly in Three Medical Groups. Evaluation & the Health Professions, 27(4):323-348.

Sink KM, Covinsky KE, Newcomer R, Yaffe K. Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence and Pattern of Dementia-Related Behaviors. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 52(8):1272-1283

Tidwell L, Holland SK, Greenberg J, Malone J, Mullan J, Newcomer R. Community Based Nurse Health Coaching and Its Effect on Fitness Participation. Lippincott's Case Management, 9(6):267-279

2005

Dobell, G, R Newcomer. Integrated care: Incentives, approaches, and future considerations. Journal of Health & Social Policy.

Gaugler JE, RL Kane, RA. Kane, T Clay, R Newcomer. The Effects of Duration of Caregiving on Institutionalization. The Gerontologist, 45(1):78-89

Gaugler JE, RL Kane, RA. Kane, R Newcomer. Modeling time to institutionalization in dementia. Research and Practice in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, 10:185-193.

Gaugler, JE. RL Kane R Newcomer. Longitudinal Effects of Early Behavior Problems in the Dementia Caregiving Career. Psychology & Aging, 20(1):100-116.

Gaugler, JE. RL Kane, RA Kane, R Newcomer. Early community-based service utilization and its effect on institutionalization in dementia caregiving. The Gerontologist, 45(2):177-185

Graham, C., L. Anderson, R Newcomer. Nursing home transition: Program Providing Assistance to Caregivers in Transition (PACT). Lippincott's Case Management, 10(2):2-9

Holland, SK, J Greenberg, L Tidwell, J Malone, J Mullan, R Newcomer. Community Based Health Coaching and its Effect on Exercise, and Health Service Utilization. Journal of Aging & Health, 17(4):

Maravilla V, Graves T, Aliotta S, Newcomer, R. Development of a Standardized Language for Case Management (SLED) Among High-Risk Elderly. Lippincott's Case Management, 10(1):2-12

Newcomer, R., T. Kang, M. LaPlante, S. Kaye. Living Quarters and Unmet Personal Care Assistance Among Adults with Disabilities. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences

Harrington C, S. Chapman, E. Miller, N. Miller, R. Newcomer. Trends in the Supply of Long Term Care Facilities and Beds In the U.S. Journal of Applied Gerontology, xx:xx.

Submitted

Gaugler, JE. RL Kane, RA Kane, R Newcomer. Predictors of institutionalization in Latinos with dementia: a cross-cultural analysis. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology.

Gaugler, JE. RL Kane, RA Kane, R Newcomer. Unmet Care Needs and Key Transitions in Dementia. Journal of the American Geriatric Society.

Gaugler, JE. RL Kane, RA Kane, R Newcomer. The Influence of Unmet Care Needs on Institutionalization and Other Transitions in Dementia. Medical Care.

Newcomer, R. T. Clay, K. Yaffe, K. Covinsky. Medicare Expenditures at the End of Life for Persons with Dementia. Journal of the American Geriatric Society.

Chapters in Books

2000

Newcomer, R. & C. Griffin. Community planning and the elderly. In R. Rubinstein, M. Moss, M. Kleban (eds.) The many dimensions of aging. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 239-252.

2001

Newcomer, R. Board and care homes. In Encyclopedia of Aging, 3nd edition (G. Maddox, ed.) New York: Springer Publishing

Newcomer, R., J. Swan, S. Karon. Residential care supply and nursing home case mix. In Schwarz, B. (Ed.). Assisted Living: Sobering Realities. Haworth Press Inc, pp. 57-66.

2002

Newcomer, R. Health and long-term care program integration. In Ekerdt, DJ, RA Applebaum, KC Holden, SG Post, K Rockwood, R Schulz, RL Sprott P Uhlenberg, (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Aging. New York: MacMillan Reference USA.

2003

Newcomer, R. & W. Leutz. Health Maintenance Organizations and Managed Health Care for the Elderly In. Vitt, L, C MacBean, JK Siegenthaler, J Losikoff-Kent, CD Jenkins, MH McSweeney, SL Reynolds, MS Smith, D Talbert-White (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Retirement and Finance. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, pp. 358-362.

In Press

Scherzer, T., S. Chapman, R. Newcomer. Integrating occupational injury into the United States' Personal Assistance Services workforce research agenda (In Press)

Newcomer, R., C. Flores, M. Hernandez. Public sector influences on the look and operation of tomorrow's assisted living residences. In S.M. Golant & J. Hyde (Eds.) The Assisted Living Residence: A vision for the future. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press (In Press)

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