Primary Education Topic:
Policy and Advocacy
Other Education Topics:
Caregiving
Healthcare & Aging
Leadership in Aging
In the face of skyrocketing demand, guaranteed economic hardship is not an effective recruitment strategy.
By Stephen Campbell
Over the next three decades, the population of adults older than age 85 will triple, and demand for direct care workers—personal care aides, home health aides and nursing assistants—will rise dramatically. We will need 1 million new direct care workers from 2014 to 2024, according to PHI research.*