‘Dire’ outlook for elderly as carer shortage set to top 1m
Little extra to add to this article apart from (reflecting on the RSN seminar today) to say it’s going to be one of the biggest and most insuperable issues facing the elderly in rural England. It tells us:
Nursing homes and care agencies in England are likely to be short of 200,000 workers within five years as low pay, stress and rock bottom morale take their toll, a new study predicts.
The staffing shortfall could even top one million in the next 20 years unless action is taken now to halt the exodus from the care industry, the report published jointly by the think-tank the International Longevity Centre and Independent Age, the older people’s charity, warns.
Immigration rules severely restricting non-EU workers from coming to Britain to fill low-skilled roles have played a major role in fuelling to the crisis, it finds.