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Tetyana Shippee

University of Minnesota

Tetyana Shippee

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Tetyana P. Shippee, PhD, is a Professor of Health Policy & Management and Associate Director for Research at the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation (CHAI) at the University of Minnesota. Her work focuses on improving the quality and equity of long-term services and supports (LTSS) for older adults and people with disabilities, spanning assisted living, home care, personal care, and nursing homes.

Dr. Shippee leads an extensive, policy-relevant research portfolio which is supported by federal and state funding, including multiple NIH R01 grants and a statewide LTSS quality reporting initiative with the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Her research has directly informed state and national long-term care reforms.

She provides strategic leadership for interdisciplinary research teams, builds cross-sector partnerships, and mentors early-career investigators as Co-Director of the University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Early Career Development Program (K awards). Nationally, she serves as Chair of the Research, Policy, and Practice Section of the Gerontological Society of America (2025), is a GSA Fellow, and contributes to national LTC initiatives including the Moving Forward Coalition.

With more than 110 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Shippee is internationally recognized for her contributions to person-centered, equitable long-term care policy and practice.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries United States;
Topics Care Homes; Care inequalities; Care outcomes; Culturally appropriate LTC; Dementia care and support; LGBTQ+ people and Long-Term Care; LTC Policy; Minorities and LTC; Quality of care; Unmet needs;
Methods Analysis of administrative data; Delphi surveys; Ethnography; Focus groups; Interviews; Longitudinal data analysis; Measure validation; Mixed methods; Observational studies; Panel data analysis; Participatory research methods; Psychometric testing; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Scoping reviews;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Innovation in Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care Policy; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care;
Websitehttps://www.tetyanashippee.com/home
ORC.ID0000-0003-1804-2527
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/tetyana-pylypiv-shippee-1b137074/
Research interests

Dr. Shippee’s research focuses on improving quality, equity, and person-centered outcomes in long-term services and supports (LTSS). Her work centers on measuring and enhancing quality of life and other person-reported outcomes in nursing homes, assisted living, and Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS). She also investigates racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in LTSS, the experiences of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) and serious mental illness, and the system-level and structural factors that shape care quality and access. Using mixed methods, large administrative datasets, and survey-based measures, her research aims to inform policy reform and advance more equitable, person-centered models of long-term care.
Key publications

Dr. Shippee’s publications include foundational work on quality measurement in long-term care (quality of life and family satisfaction), studies of racial and ethnic inequities, and policy-impacting research on person-reported outcomes and system-level determinants of care. Her contributions span nursing homes, assisted living, and HCBS, and have been used to guide quality improvement across the U.S. and internationally.

1. Person-Reported Quality & Measurement in LTSS

Shippee, T. P., Akosionu-DeSouza, O., Beebe, T. J., Parikh, R. R., & Brasure, M. (2025). Measurement of Quality in Assisted Living in the United States of America: A Scoping Review. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 26(1), 105355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105355

Shippee, T., Duan, Y., Baker, Z., Parikh, R., Bucy, T., & Jutkowitz, E. (2024). Measuring Consumer-Reported Quality of Life Among Recipients of Publicly Funded Home- and Community-Based Services. Journal of Aging and Health, Jul 24:8982643241267378. https://doi.org/10.1177/08982643241267378

Shippee, T. P., Henning-Smith, C., Kane, R. L., & Lewis, T. (2015). Resident- and facility-level predictors of quality of life in long-term care. The Gerontologist, 55(4), 643–655. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnt148

2. Equity, Disparities & Structural Barriers

Ferraro, K. F., & Shippee, T. P. (2009). Aging and Cumulative Inequality: How Does Inequality Get Under the Skin? The Gerontologist, 49(3), 333–343. PMCID: PMC2721665. (cited ~1,270 times)

Shippee, Tetyana P., Duan, Yinfei, Olsen-Baker, Mary, & Angert, Julie. (2020). Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Self-Rated Health and Sense of Control among Older Adults Receiving Publicly Funded Home- and Community-Based Services. Journal of Aging and Health, 32(10), 1376–1386. PMID: 32538249.

Shippee, T. P., Davila, H., Ng, W., Bowblis, J., Akosionu, O., Skarphol, T., … Thorpe, R. (2022). Evidence to inform policy and practice: Mechanisms to address racial/ethnic disparities in nursing home quality of life. Innovation in Aging, 6(4): igac037. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35832200/

3. Nursing Home Quality & Vulnerable Populations

Shippee, T. P., Parikh, R., Baker, Z., Bucy, T., Ng, W., Qin, X., Woodhouse, M., Nkimheng, M., & McCarthy, T. (2024). Racial differences in nursing home quality of life among residents living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias. Journal of Aging and Health, 36(5–6), 379–389. https://doi.org/10.1177/089826432311911

Shippee, T. P., Parikh, R., Duan, Y., Bowblis, J., Woodhouse, M., & Lewis, T. (2023). Measuring Nursing Home Quality of Life: Validated Measures Are Poorly Correlated with Proxies from MDS and Quality-of-Life Deficiency Citations. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2023.03.014

Shippee, T. P., Ng, W., Roberts, A., & Bowblis, J. (2020). Family satisfaction with nursing home care: Findings and implications from a two-state comparison. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 39(4), 385–392. PMCID: PMC9154313.