EWA and ASA Host Capitol Hill Briefing on Eldercare Workforce
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June 1, 2011
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“Building a Workforce to Care for an Aging Society: Challenges and Opportunities” was the topic of a Capitol Hill luncheon briefing where experts presented their research on the challenges we face as an aging nation and the opportunities for Congress to avert an eldercare workforce shortage crisis.
Check out the video of the full briefing here.
The May 25 briefing, hosted by the Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) in partnership with the American Society on Aging (ASA) and with support from Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), chair of the Special Committee on Aging, was attended by scores of representatives from Congressional offices.
EWA Leads the Way
“The Eldercare Workforce Alliance is leading the way with the type of cross-cutting and innovative work that our health care system needs to reinvent itself in the 21st century,” said Kohl, the Congressional supporter of the briefing.
“As chair of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, I have high hopes for their mission of promoting progressive workforce reforms. They should be the cornerstone of any new model of care,” Kohl said.
At the briefing, Anne Montgomery, senior policy advisor for the Committee, spoke about the critical need to build a workforce to care for our nation’s aging population.
