Scholarship and Biography
Joe Caldwell, PhD, is Senior Scientist and Director of the Community Living Policy Center, within the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University. His work focuses on home and community-based services and supports for individuals with disabilities, older adults, and family caregivers.
Current areas of research include: 1) Impact of person-centered planning and self-direction on health and community living outcomes; 2) Disparities in access to home and community-based services, unmet needs and quality; 3) Impacts of family support policies and practices; and 4) Policy analysis and development to improve long-term services and supports financing, shift from institutional to more cost-effective home and community-based services, and enhance integration and coordination with the broader health care system. Other areas of research and scholarship have included outcomes of self-directed services and supports, supports for aging family caregivers and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and the self-advocacy movement.
Previously, Dr. Caldwell was Director of Long-Term Services and Supports at the National Council on Aging, where he led the Disability and Aging Collaborative, a coalition of over 40 national aging disability organizations that work together to advance federal long-term services and support policy.