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The Eldercare Workforce Alliance Addresses Shortages in Elder Care

Released: 3/2/2009

The Eldercare Workforce Alliance, a coalition of 25 leading organizations representing older adults and the eldercare workforce, held its founding meeting during the first week of February 2009. This wide array of national organizations has joined together to address the critical shortage of health care providers and caregivers who are adequately prepared to meet the unique care needs of older adults. To accomplish this, the Alliance supports programs to increase workforce capacity, strengthen workers' competencies, and improve coordination of care.

The Alliance was formed in direct response to a report released in the spring of 2008 by the Institute of Medicine, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, which concluded that America's eldercare workforce is dangerously understaffed and unprepared to care for the rapidly growing number of older adults in the U.S.

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Report at a Glance

  • Fact Sheet (PDF)
  • Report Brief (PDF)
  • Report Brief (Spanish): Preparandonos para una America que Envejece: Construyendo la Fuerza Laboral del Cuidado Medico (PDF)
  • Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce (PDF)
  • Statement of John W. Rowe, M.D. Before the Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF)