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An international review of the long-term care workforce
— policies and strategies | | Author(s) | Shereen Hussein, Jill Manthorpe |
| Corporate Author | Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 17, no 4, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 75-94 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Social workers ; Care home staff ; Labour shortage ; Social policy ; Comparison ; International. |
| Annotation | The developed world's population is ageing, due to trends of increased life expectancies and decreased fertility rates. These trends are predicted to increase demand on long-term care services. At the same time, the long-term care workforce is in shortage in most of the developed world. Moreover, such shortages are expected to increase due to parallel socio-demographic factors. The increase in demand for long-term care, coupled with shortage in supply of care workers, has promoted some attention from policymakers. This paper provides an international review of institutional arrangements for long-term care in different developed countries. In particular, it explores different strategies used or proposed to resolve the shortage in the long-term care workforce. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060908008 A |
| Classmark | QR: QRM: WJ6: TM2: 48: 72 |
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