LeadingAge advocates can access a new resource, a “Workforce Crisis: American Needs Caregiving Professionals Now” two-page document that provides updated statistics on the population of the United States that is rapidly aging, and the steadily dwindling direct care professionals that provide immediate caregiving support. Additionally, the document provides an overview of the contributing factors and barriers to growing an aging services workforce, and the “all-of-government” approach lawmakers should make to resolve the problem. This document should be a part of the coordinated advocacy campaign, as LeadingAge advocates communicate why Congress should take action for the aging services workforce now! Here’s a link to the document: Workforce-Crisis-Two-Pager.pdf (leadingage.org)
