Katherine Miller

As a health services researcher, I apply an economic lens to research at the intersection of aging and health policy evaluation. I am interested in understanding how public policies impact the long-term care workforce and the people with complex medical needs for whom they care. Collectively, my work examines the effects of policies and interventions on outcomes of the workforce (e.g., wages of the paid caregivers and well-beings of unpaid/family caregivers); the mechanisms impacting quality of care (e.g., turnover); and, patient outcomes across the spectrum of long-term care settings. While these are my core research questions, I am also interested in understanding disparities in long-term care by rurality.