BONUS - Tradeoffs: Can Creating New Career Pathways Solve Shortages in Long-Term Care?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Roughly 10 percent of long-term care workers have left their careers since the start of COVID-19. The shortage in staffing has led to nursing homes turning patients away, left caregivers at home struggling for help, and ultimately put patients at risk in the hands of workers who have been stretched thin. Tradeoffs host Dan Gorenstein talks about a San Fransisco non-profit home health agency looking to make changes in this sector and how providing long-term care workers with new career pathways could be part of the solution. If you like this episode, check out the Tradeoffs podcast at www.tradeoffs.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.0 | Hi, I'm Grace Fernandez, filling in for producer Lindsay Smith-Rogers. |
| 0:35.8 | Today, we're turning the podcast over to guest host Dan |
| 0:38.7 | Gorenstein, a longtime health reporter and host of the podcast tradeoffs. The topic today is the |
| 0:44.6 | shortage of long-term care workers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how on top of |
| 0:49.6 | offering competitive wages and better work conditions, Creating new career pathways could be the solution |
| 0:55.3 | to bettering retention in nursing facilities and in home care for older Americans. Let's listen. |
| 1:02.6 | The pandemic took a big chunk out of the health care workforce, especially among people who |
| 1:07.6 | care for older adults. About 10% of long-term care workers have left the field since COVID hit. |
| 1:17.1 | Nursing homes are turning people away. |
| 1:27.2 | Family caregivers are struggling as they wait months for home health aides, and the remaining |
| 1:32.3 | workers are stretched thin, their patients at risk. Pay for this often grueling work is low with little room for growth. |
| 1:50.6 | That has some in long-term care suggesting nursing assistants and home health aides might |
| 1:55.4 | stick around longer if they had a chance to advance in the sector. |
| 2:05.5 | Today, the push to make long-term care a long-term career. |
| 2:09.8 | From the studio at the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, |
| 2:11.1 | I'm Dan Gornstein. |
| 2:13.0 | This is Traitors. Serena Maria warmly remembers the first older person she took care of. |
| 2:22.6 | Her name was Liberty Bell and she was born on 4th of July and she was the sweetest thing. |
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