Supply and Demand: The Widening Gap Between the Need for In-Home Care and the Number of Caregivers

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​Home care agency owners are well aware that one of the biggest issues in home care today is a shortage of caregivers - coupled with a rapidly aging population, this leads us to a major supply and demand issue. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, home care aides and personal care aides are the sixth fastest growing jobs. For a recent story in HCAOA’s magazine, The Voice, we spoke with several newer agencies that opened in the past few years and even during the COVID pandemic, to explore this impending crisis and what efforts home care agencies across the country are making to grow their workforce to meet the growing demand. Check out this panel interview article here. Or you can read the entire magazine here.  

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