Direct Care Workers
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منابع مشابه
The Labor Market for Direct Care Workers
As the baby boom cohort nears retirement age, the question of how to provide necessary health care and personal services to a growing elderly population has become a looming policy problem. Beginning in 2020, the number of Americans over the age of 65 will surpass the number of primary providers of formal and informal long-term care (women between the ages of 20 and 44). Perceptions of shortage...
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عنوان ژورنال: North Carolina Medical Journal
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0029-2559,0029-2559
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.63.2.116