The ageing workforce: A health issue?

The ageing workforce--challenges for occupational health.

An ageing nursing workforce.

There are well documented workforce shortages in nursing. Many strategies have been suggested to resolve the issue, including increasing migration or training places, changing skill mix or nurses' roles, redesigning nursing work, and greater use of unregulated or unlicensed workers. One of the contributing and growing factors is the ageing of the workforce, but methods of retaining older employ...

The Future of Ageing and Its Health Care Costs: A Warning for Health System

This article is focused on ageing and the rapid ageing population growth, from future health care costs prospectus. It reviews ageing population statistics in several courtiers as well as Iran, to illustrate the significance of the ageing population growth in the next decades. Nevertheless, the health care costs for elderly people are described and the considerable differences between health ca...

The Ageing Construction Workforce in Hong Kong: A Review

The scope and extent of public and private sector infrastructure projects in Hong Kong continue to grow rapidly. As a result the construction industry suffers from a shortage of skilled workers to support the ever increasing demands of the industry. Solutions for the manpower deficiency are: to encourage young workers to join the construction industry and to train them; and to retain the older ...

Framing the Health Workforce Agenda Beyond Economic Growth

The fourth Global Forum on Human Resources (HRH) for Health was held in Ireland November 2017. Its Dublin declaration mentions that strategic investments in the health workforce could contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth and are an imperative to shared prosperity. What is remarkable about the investment frame for health workforce development is that there is little debate about the ty...