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UCSF INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH & AGING ◊ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
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| Robert Newcomer |
Professor, Institute for Health & Aging
Email: Robert.Newcomer@ucsf.edu
Telephone: (415) 476-1408
Dr. Robert Newcomer received his B.A. degree (Political Science) from the University of California, and masters and doctorate degrees (Planning & Urban Studies) at the University of Southern California. He is a Professor in the Institute for Health & Aging, and Associate Director of the Center for Personal Assistance Services.
He was formerly chair of the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, and formerly Deputy Director of the Institute for Health & Aging. He worked in hospital and long term care planning, and county government before joining UCSF as a faculty member in 1976.
His research interests focus on community long term care service systems planning and evaluation.
Current work includes studies of health and community service expenditures among long term care recipients, and occupational injury among personal care workers. He has also done extensive work in care coordination and managed care.
He is a fellow in the Association of Health Services Research, and the Gerontological Society of America; and has served on the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association, and as section chair and as a member of the Council of the Gerontological Society.
He is a recipient of the Schluderberg Award from the American Association of Retired Persons, and the Helen Nahm Award from the UCSF School of Nursing.
He has served as a member and vice chair of the Committee on Academic Personnel, member and chair of the Committee on Faculty Welfare, member of the Committee on Research, and the Committee on Committees.
He has also served as chair of the Faculty Council in the School of Nursing, and as the UCSF representative to two UC-systemwide senate committees: Academic Personnel, and Faculty Welfare.
2009-2012; Co-Principal Investigator. Evaluating Home and Community Based Services in California. Funded by the SCAN Foundation & Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (Andrew Bindman, Principal Investigator). Budget $3 million.
2003-2011; Co-Principal Investigator. Center for Personal Assistance Services. Funded by the Department of Education, National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research #H133B031109. (Charlene Harrington, Principal Investigator). Budget $4.5 million.
2007-2010; Principal Investigator. Occupational Injury Among Personal Assistance Workers. National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health. #1R01OH008759-01A1. Budget Year 1 $409,620
2009-2010; Principal Investigator. Planning the development of an electronic information system for residential care facilities for the elderly, California Healthcare foundation. Budget $561,980
Search PubMed for publications by this author.
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Flores, C. & R Newcomer.
Monitoring Quality of Care in Residential Care for the Elderly: The Information Challenge,
Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 21(3):225-242, 2009
Flores C, Bostrom A, Newcomer R.
Inspection visits in residential care facilities for the elderly: the effects of a policy change in California,
Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2009 DOI: 10: 1177/0733464809332365.
Gaugler JK, K Hepburn, M Mittleman, R Newcomer. (2009).
Predictors of change in caregiver burden & depressive symptoms following nursing home admission.
Psychology & Aging, 24(2):385-396, 2009
Schraeder CK, C Fraser, I Clark, R Newcomer, J Stoll, C Krock, PS Shelton.
The Effect of Primary Care Management on Lipids Testing and LDL-C Control of
Elderly Patients with Co-morbidities,
Professional Case Management, 14(2):84-95, 2009.
Stone R & R Newcomer. Advances and issues in personal care,
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 25(1):35-45, 2009.
Dobell, G, R Newcomer. Integrated care: Incentives, approaches, and future considerations.
Social Work in Public Health, 23(4):25-47, 2008.
Newcomer, R., C. Flores, M. Hernandez.
Intended and unintended consequences of the regulatory environments imposed by state and federal governments.
In S.M. Golant & J. Hyde (Eds.) The Assisted Living Residence: A vision for the future. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, pp 351-378, 2008.
Chiu, WK, R. Newcomer. A Systematic Review of Nurse-Assisted Case Management to Improve Hospital Discharge Transition Outcomes for the Elderly.
Professional Case Management, 12(6):330-336, 2007.
Gaugler, JE. RL Kane, R Newcomer. Resilience and Transitions from Dementia Caregiving.
Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62B(1):P38-P44, 2007
Hernandez, M, R Newcomer. Assisted Living and Special Populations: What Do We Know About Differences in Use and Potential Access Barriers?
The Gerontologist, 42(Special Issue 3):110-117, 2007.
Scherzer, T, R Newcomer. Assessing the State and Local Infrastructure for Documenting Occupational Injury among Personal Assistance Service Workers,
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 50:530-544, 2007
Flores, C & R Newcomer. Toward a Framework for Monitoring the Quality of Care in Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly.
Seniors Housing & Care Journal, 14(1):59-72, 2006
Gaugler, JE. RL Kane, RA Kane, R Newcomer. Predictors of institutionalization in Latinos with dementia: a cross-cultural analysis.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 22(1):139-155, 2006
Kaye, HS, S Chapman, R Newcomer, C Harrington. The Personal Assistance Workforce: Trends in Supply and Demand.
Health Affairs, 25(4):1113-1120, 2006
Sink, KM, KE Covinsky DB Barnes, RJ Newcomer, K Yaffe. Caregiver Characteristics Are Associated with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia.
Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 54(5):796-803, 2006.
Newcomer, R., T. Kang, C. Graham. Outcomes in a nursing home transition case management program targeting new admissions.
The Gerontologist, 46(3):385-390, 2006.
Scherzer, T., S. Chapman, R. Newcomer. Integrating occupational injury into the United States' Personal Assistance Services
workforce research agenda. In S. Kunkel and V. Wellin. (Eds.),
Consumer Voice and Choice in Long-Term Care. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 89-99, 2006.
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
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.
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(6), 2005.
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
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.
Newcomer, R. & W. Leutz. [Book Chapter] 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.
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.
Newcomer, R. [Book Chapter] 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.
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.
Newcomer, R. [Book Chapter] Board and care homes. In Encyclopedia of Aging, 3nd edition (G. Maddox, ed.) New York: Springer Publishing
Newcomer, R., J. Swan, S. Karon. [Book Chapter] Residential care supply and nursing home case mix. In Schwarz, B. (Ed.). Assisted Living: Sobering Realities. Haworth Press Inc, pp. 57-66.
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.
Newcomer, R. & C. Griffin. [Book Chapter] 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.
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