Bob Newcomer, PhD
PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Social Behavioral Sciences
School of Nursing

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• Occupational Injury Among Personal Assistance Workers, NIH, 2007-2010

Publications (90)

Top publication keywords:
InstitutionalizationNursing HomesHealth Services for the AgedMedicareCase ManagementCaregiversHome Care ServicesHome Health AidesCommunity Health ServicesHomes for the AgedMedicaidDementiaLong-Term CarePersonal Health ServicesHealth Maintenance Organizations

• Training Home Care Workers Reduces Emergency Room Service Utilization.
  Professional case management 2024 Chapman SA, Neri MT, Newcomer RJ
• Changing home care aides: Differences between family and non-family care in California Medicaid home and community-based services.
  Home health care services quarterly 2019 Ko M, Newcomer RJ, Bindman AB, Kang T, Hulett D, Spetz J
• Predictors of Nursing Facility Entry by Medicaid-Only Older Adults and Persons With Disabilities in California.
  Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 2018 Ko M, Newcomer RJ, Harrington C, Hulett D, Kang T, Bindman AB
• Health Care Use Before and After Entering Long-Term Services and Supports.
  Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2016 Newcomer R, Harrington C, Hulett D, Kang T, Ko M, Bindman A
• Health Care Expenditures After Initiating Long-term Services and Supports in the Community Versus in a Nursing Facility.
  Medical care 2016 Newcomer RJ, Ko M, Kang T, Harrington C, Hulett D, Bindman AB

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• Employment after liver transplantation: a review.
  Transplantation proceedings 2015 Huda A, Newcomer R, Harrington C, Keeffe EB, Esquivel CO
• Payment rates for personal care assistants and the use of long-term services and supports among those dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.
  Health services research 2014 Ko M, Newcomer R, Kang T, Hulett D, Chu P, Bindman AB
• The effects of cognitive impairment on nursing home residents' emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014 Stephens CE, Newcomer R, Blegen M, Miller B, Harrington C
• Personal service assistance: musculoskeletal disorders and injuries in consumer-directed home care.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2013 Faucett J, Kang T, Newcomer R
• Identifying at-risk dementia caregivers following institutionalization: the nursing home admission-burden and nursing home admission-depression prognostic tools.
  Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2012 Gaugler JE, Mittelman MS, Hepburn K, Newcomer R
• High rate of unemployment after liver transplantation: analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing database.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2012 Huda A, Newcomer R, Harrington C, Blegen MG, Keeffe EB
• In-home supportive services for individuals with cerebral palsy in California.
  Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicine 2012 Houtrow A, Kang T, Newcomer R
• Emergency department use by nursing home residents: effect of severity of cognitive impairment.
  The Gerontologist 2011 Stephens CE, Newcomer R, Blegen M, Miller B, Harrington C
• Allowing spouses to be paid personal care providers: spouse availability and effects on Medicaid-funded service use and expenditures.
  The Gerontologist 2011 Newcomer RJ, Kang T, Doty P
• Consumer-directed personal care: comparing aged and non-aged adult recipient health-related outcomes among those with paid family versus non-relative providers.
  Home health care services quarterly 2011 Newcomer R, Kang T, Faucett J
• Does caregiver burden mediate the effects of behavioral disturbances on nursing home admission?
  The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2011 Gaugler JE, Wall MM, Kane RL, Menk JS, Sarsour K, Johnston JA, Schuh K, Newcomer R
• Clinically significant changes in burden and depression among dementia caregivers following nursing home admission.
  BMC medicine 2010 Gaugler JE, Mittelman MS, Hepburn K, Newcomer R
• The effects of incident and persistent behavioral problems on change in caregiver burden and nursing home admission of persons with dementia.
  Medical care 2010 Gaugler JE, Wall MM, Kane RL, Menk JS, Sarsour K, Johnston JA, Beusching D, Newcomer R
• Do trajectories of at-home dementia caregiving account for burden after nursing home placement? A growth curve analysis.
  Social work in health care 2010 Nikzad-Terhune KA, Anderson KA, Newcomer R, Gaugler JE
• Monitoring quality of care in residential care for the elderly: the information challenge.
  Journal of aging & social policy 2009 Flores C, Newcomer R
• Predictors of change in caregiver burden and depressive symptoms following nursing home admission.
  Psychology and aging 2009 Gaugler JE, Mittelman MS, Hepburn K, Newcomer R
• The effect of primary care management on lipids testing and LDL-C control of elderly patients with comorbidities.
  Professional case management 2009 Schraeder C, Fraser C, Clark I, Newcomer R, Stoll J, Krock C, Shelton P
• Advances and issues in personal care.
  Clinics in geriatric medicine 2009 Stone R, Newcomer R
• Integrated care: incentives, approaches, and future considerations.
  Social work in public health 2008 Dobell LG, Newcomer RJ
• A systematic review of nurse-assisted case management to improve hospital discharge transition outcomes for the elderly.
  Professional case management 2007 Chiu WK, Newcomer R
• Barriers to documenting occupational injuries among personal assistance services workers.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2007 Scherzer T, Newcomer R
• Assisted living and special populations: what do we know about differences in use and potential access barriers?
  The Gerontologist 2007 Hernandez M, Newcomer R
• Financial management services in consumer-directed programs.
  Home health care services quarterly 2007 Scherzer T, Wong A, Newcomer R
• Resilience and transitions from dementia caregiving.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2007 Gaugler JE, Kane RL, Newcomer R
• Predictors of institutionalization in Latinos with dementia.
  Journal of cross-cultural gerontology 2006 Gaugler JE, Kane RL, Kane RA, Newcomer R
• The personal assistance workforce: trends in supply and demand.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2006 Kaye HS, Chapman S, Newcomer RJ, Harrington C
• Outcomes in a nursing home transition case-management program targeting new admissions.
  The Gerontologist 2006 Newcomer R, Kang T, Graham C
• Caregiver characteristics are associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2006 Sink KM, Covinsky KE, Barnes DE, Newcomer RJ, Yaffe K
• Community-based health coaching, exercise, and health service utilization.
  Journal of aging and health 2005 Holland SK, Greenberg J, Tidwell L, Malone J, Mullan J, Newcomer R
• Unmet care needs and key outcomes in dementia.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005 Gaugler JE, Kane RL, Kane RA, Newcomer R
• Mortality risk and prospective medicare expenditures for persons with dementia.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005 Newcomer RJ, Clay TH, Yaffe K, Covinsky KE
• Living quarters and unmet need for personal care assistance among adults with disabilities.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2005 Newcomer R, Kang T, Laplante M, Kaye S
• Early community-based service utilization and its effects on institutionalization in dementia caregiving.
  The Gerontologist 2005 Gaugler JE, Kane RL, Kane RA, Newcomer R
• Nursing home transition: providing assistance to caregivers in transition program.
  Lippincott's case management : managing the process of patient care 2005 Graham C, Anderson L, Newcomer R
• The longitudinal effects of early behavior problems in the dementia caregiving career.
  Psychology and aging 2005 Gaugler JE, Kane RL, Kane RA, Newcomer R
• Development of a standardized language for case management among high-risk elderly.
  Lippincott's case management : managing the process of patient care 2005 Maravilla V, Graves MT, Newcomer R
• Outcomes of preventive case management among high-risk elderly in three medical groups: a randomized clinical trial.
  Evaluation & the health professions 2004 Newcomer R, Maravilla V, Faculjak P, Graves MT
• Community-based nurse health coaching and its effect on fitness participation.
  Lippincott's case management : managing the process of patient care 2004 Tidwell L, Holland SK, Greenberg J, Malone J, Mullan J, Newcomer R
• Ethnic differences in the prevalence and pattern of dementia-related behaviors.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2004 Sink KM, Covinsky KE, Newcomer R, Yaffe K
• Patient and caregiver characteristics associated with depression in caregivers of patients with dementia.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2003 Covinsky KE, Newcomer R, Fox P, Wood J, Sands L, Dane K, Yaffe K
• Implementing an early intervention case management program in three medical groups.
  The Case manager 2003 Graves MT, Slater MA, Maravilla V, Reissler L, Faculjak P, Newcomer RJ
• Predicting 12-month mortality for persons with dementia.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2003 Newcomer R, Covinsky KE, Clay T, Yaffe K
• Caregiving and institutionalization of cognitively impaired older people: utilizing dynamic predictors of change.
  The Gerontologist 2003 Gaugler JE, Kane RL, Kane RA, Clay T, Newcomer R
• Preventing disability through community-based health coaching.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003 Holland SK, Greenberg J, Tidwell L, Newcomer R
• Medicare managed care and frail elders: lessons from social HMOs.
  Care management journals : Journal of case management ; The journal of long term home health care 2003 Leutz W, Ford T, Leung M, Mueller M, Nonnenkamp L, Newcomer R
• Challenges and accomplishments of the second-generation social health maintenance organization.
  The Gerontologist 2002 Newcomer R, Harrington C, Kane R
• Patient and caregiver characteristics and nursing home placement in patients with dementia.
  JAMA 2002 Yaffe K, Fox P, Newcomer R, Sands L, Lindquist K, Dane K, Covinsky KE
• Health and long-term care for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: Policy research issues.
  Aging & mental health 2001 Newcomer RJ, Fox PJ, Harrington CA
• Health and long-term care for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: policy research issues.
  Aging & mental health 2001 Newcomer RJ, Fox PJ, Harrington CA
• Residential care supply and cognitive and physical problem case mix in nursing homes.
  Journal of aging and health 2001 Newcomer R, Swan J, Karon S, Bigelow W, Harrington C, Zimmerman D
• Community-level indicators of chronic health conditions and services.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2000 Newcomer R
• Implementing the second generation social health maintenance organization.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000 Newcomer R, Harrington C, Kane R
• Lessons learned from the Medicare Alzheimer Disease Demonstration.
  Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2000 Fox P, Newcomer R, Yordi C, Arnsberger P
• Residential care supply, nursing home licensing, and case mix in four states.
  Health care financing review 2000 Swan J, Newcomer R
• Effects of the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration on caregiver burden and depression.
  Health services research 1999 Newcomer R, Yordi C, DuNah R, Fox P, Wilkinson A
• Effects of the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration on nursing home entry.
  Health services research 1999 Miller R, Newcomer R, Fox P
• Effects of the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration on the use of community-based services.
  Health services research 1999 Newcomer R, Spitalny M, Fox P, Yordi C
• Misclassification and selection bias when identifying Alzheimer's disease solely from Medicare claims records.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1999 Newcomer R, Clay T, Luxenberg JS, Miller RH
• Effects of the Medicare Alzheimer's disease demonstration on Medicare expenditures.
  Health care financing review 1999 Newcomer R, Miller R, Clay T, Fox P
• Caregiver supports: outcomes from the Medicare Alzheimer's disease demonstration.
  Health care financing review 1997 Yordi C, DuNah R, Bostrom A, Fox P, Wilkinson A, Newcomer R
• Case management, client risk factors and service use.
  Health care financing review 1997 Newcomer R, Arnsberger P, Zhang X
• S/HMOs, the second generation: building on the experience of the first Social Health Maintenance Organization demonstrations.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1997 Kane RL, Kane RA, Finch M, Harrington C, Newcomer R, Miller N, Hulbert M
• Prior and current costs in capitated health plans: the effects of health status at enrollment.
  Journal of aging and health 1996 Manton KG, Newcomer R, Lowrimore GR, Vertrees JC
• Health plan satisfaction and risk of disenrollment among social/HMO and fee-for-service recipients.
  Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1996 Newcomer R, Preston S, Harrington C
• Evaluating long-term care demonstrations in real time with study design and plan performance interactions.
  Medical care 1995 Manton KG, Newcomer R, Lowrimore GR, Vertrees JC, Harrington C
• A response to representatives from the social HMOs regarding program evaluation.
  The Gerontologist 1995 Newcomer RJ, Harrington C, Manton KG, Lynch M
• Case mix controlled service use and expenditures in the social/health maintenance organization demonstration.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 1995 Newcomer R, Manton K, Harrington C, Yordi C, Vertrees J
• A method for adjusting capitation payments to managed care plans using multivariate patterns of health and functioning: the experience of Social/Health Maintenance Organizations.
  Medical care 1994 Manton KG, Newcomer R, Vertrees JC, Lowrimore GR, Harrington C
• Medical services in social health maintenance organizations.
  The Gerontologist 1993 Harrington C, Lynch M, Newcomer RJ
• A comparison of S/HMO disenrollees and continuing members.
  Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1993 Harrington C, Newcomer RJ, Preston S
• Social/health maintenance organization and fee-for-service health outcomes over time.
  Health care financing review 1993 Manton KG, Newcomer R, Lowrimore GR, Vertrees JC, Harrington C
• Social health maintenance organizations' service use and costs, 1985-89.
  Health care financing review 1991 Harrington C, Newcomer RJ
• Social Health Maintenance Organizations: assessing their initial experience.
  Health services research 1990 Newcomer R, Harrington C, Friedlob A
• Awareness and enrollment in the Social/HMO.
  The Gerontologist 1990 Newcomer R, Harrington C, Friedlob A
• Factors that contribute to Medicare HMO risk contract success.
  Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1988 Harrington C, Newcomer RJ, Moore TG
• Fiscal conditions and state government policy choices.
  Comprehensive gerontology. Section B, Behavioural, social, and applied sciences 1987 Newcomer RJ
• Board and care housing. An analysis of state differences.
  Research on aging 1986 Benjamin AE, Newcomer RJ
• Effects of state Medicaid policies on the aged.
  The Gerontologist 1986 Harrington C, Estes CL, Lee PR, Newcomer RJ
• Prospective payment: systemic effects on the provision of community care for the elderly.
  Home health care services quarterly 1986 Sankar A, Newcomer R, Wood J
• Social/health maintenance organizations: new policy options for the aged, blind, and disabled.
  Journal of public health policy 1985 Harrington C, Newcomer RJ
• Medicare prospective payment: anticipated effect on hospitals, other community agencies, and families.
  Journal of health politics, policy and law 1985 Newcomer R, Wood J, Sankar A
• Elders and children: patterns of public policy in the fifty states.
  Journal of gerontology 1980 Benjamin AE, Estes CL, Swan JH, Newcomer RJ
• Assessing the need for semi-dependent housing for the elderly.
  The Gerontologist 1976 Newcomer RJ, Newcomer SR, Gelwicks LE
• Delphi forecasting of health care organization.
  Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1975 Starkweather DB, Gelwicks L, Newcomer R
• Environmental influences on the older person.
  Geriatrics 1973 Newcomer R