Retooling for an Aging America

Author: Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0309115876
Category: Medical

Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce

As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Download Retooling for an Aging America medical books for free.


Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides.

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Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones

Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an

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