[EQ] Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce

Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce

 

Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans, Institute of Medicine,  April 14, 2008

 

Health Care Work Force Too Small, Unprepared For Aging Baby Boomers;
Higher Pay, More Training, And Changes In Care Delivery Needed To Avert Crisis

 

Available online at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12089

 

The Institute of Medicine charged the ad hoc Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans to determine the health care needs of Americans over 65 years of age and to assess those needs through an analysis of the forces that shape the health care workforce, including education and training, models of care, and public and private programs.

 

The committee concludes that the definition of the health care workforce must be expanded to include everyone involved in a patient’s care: health

care professionals, direct-care workers, informal caregivers (usually family and friends), and patients themselves. All of these individuals must have the

essential data, knowledge, and tools to provide high-quality health care.

 

The committee proposes a concurrent three-prong approach:

• Enhance the geriatric competence of the entire workforce

• Increase the recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and caregivers

• Improve the way care is delivered


Summary

1 Introduction

2 Health Status and Health Care Service Utilization

3 New Models of Care

4 The Professional Health Care Workforce

5 The Direct-Care Workforce

6 Patients and Informal Caregivers

Appendix A Committee Biographies

Appendix B Commissioned Papers

Appendix C Workshop Presentations

 

 

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