Rural Dementia Spending and Workforce Supply

Dementia disproportionately affects rural older adults. Despite this, comprehensive data on the supply of the dementia care workforce and health care spending on dementia-related care in rural and urban counties is limited. This study will address the following questions about dementia care workforce supply and spending patterns across the rural-urban continuum in the United States:

1. How does the supply of dementia specialists (e.g., geriatric psychiatrists, neurologists, geriatricians, and nurse practitioners in gerontology) vary across levels of rurality and census divisions?
2. How does spending for dementia care vary across rural and urban U.S. counties, levels of rurality, and census divisions?