Retooling for an Aging America

The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans was formed in 2007 to probe the challenges facing the US health care system as the baby boom generation approaches retirement. The committee has recently released a report entitled Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce. The report is described as a "call for fundamental reform in the way the workforce is trained and used to care for older adults" , and makes recommendations on enhancing geriatric competence, increasing recruitment and retention, and improving models of care.

The report brief is available at: http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/53/507/HealthcareWorkforce_RB.pdf. A pre-publication copy of the full report is available to download at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12089.html.

Australia 2020 Summit

"The Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd will convene an Australia 2020 Summit at Parliament House on 19 and 20 April to help shape a long term strategy for the nation’s future."

Summit topics include "A long-term national health strategy – including the challenges of preventative health, workforce planning and the ageing population".
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Movement from Hospital to Residential Aged Care: Preliminary Results

Movement from hospital to residential aged care - report released from Australian Institute of Health & Welfare (AIHW), provides preliminary results using data linkage process applied to data from four states and two territories for 2001-02, investigating the use of residential aged care for interim care following a period in hospital. Read the full report online ...