The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA), a project of the Tides Center, is a coalition of 28 US national organizations that came together to focus on short- and long-term healthcare workforce issues relating to older adults.[1]
Overview
In response to the Institute of Medicine's report Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Healthcare Workforce, over twenty organizations that represent consumers, family caregivers, the direct care workforce, and healthcare professions, joined together with the aim of delivering high-quality care to an aging population.[2] As the baby-boomers retire, caring for the America's older adults will become a growing challenge.[3]
The organization supports additional training ingeriatrics for health care professionals, including home care workers, and revising the companionship exemption, a provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act that excludes home care aides from receiving minimum wage and overtime protections.[4] In February 2013 the Eldercare Workforce Alliance wrote on this topic in a Huffington Post article titled The State of Quality Care Demands Quality Jobs.[5]
Member organizations
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance consists of 28 organizations:[6]
- Alzheimer's Foundation of America
- American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
- American Geriatrics Society (Alliance Co-Convener)
- American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living
- American Society on Aging
- Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations
- Direct Care Alliance
- LeadingAge
- National Alliance for Caregiving
- National Association for Geriatric Education
- National Hispanic Council on Aging
- PHI - Quality Care through Quality Jobs (Alliance Co-Convener)
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Federal Liaison)
References
- ^ http://www.eldercareworkforce.org/about-us/who-we-are/
- ^ http://www.eldercareworkforce.org/about-us/who-we-are/
- ^ Span, Paula Even Fewer Geriatricians in Training. New York Times. January 9, 2013.
- ^ Gross, Jane A Deadline Missed. New York Times. June 18, 2013.
- ^ Lundebjerg, Nancy and Saunders, Michèle J. The State of Quality Care Demands Quality Jobs. Huffington Post. February 13, 2013
- ^ http://www.eldercareworkforce.org/about-us/who-we-are/