Tag: Long term care

Brookdale Senior Living Inc. is planning to hire more than 4,500 health care workers for additional support in its battle against the COVID-19 emergency.

Home care workers are on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis. But for many of these caregivers, the outbreak has only exacerbated the ongoing workforce challenges associated with the in-home care space.

As this report shows, the aging "baby boomer generation" will be the most significant factor increasing the demand for long-term care services over the next half century.

Published in 2004, this paper set the stage for an ongoing conversation between representatives of the long-term care sector and the workforce investment system.

Currently, immigrants fill health care workforce shortages, providing disproportionate amounts of care overall and particularly for key shortage roles such as rural physicians.