By Geralyn Magan
LTSS Center Co-Director Robyn Stone joins two colleagues to discuss innovative strategies for tackling global workforce challenges.
Robyn Stone, co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, recently sat down with two colleagues in aging services to discuss a topic that is top-of-mind for providers of aging services around the world: the role of immigration in addressing worldwide workforce shortages in the healthcare field.
The conversation, now available on the Coming of Aging podcast, features Stone and Mansur Dalal, chairman of CommonAge and founder of the Association of Senior Living in India. Donna Duncan, CEO of the Ontario Long Term Care Association, is the host.
The trio reviews the pressing, worldwide need for more nurses and direct care professionals who can provide services and supports to a growing population of older adults. They insist that this challenge is not unique to any one jurisdiction. Instead, it’s a global issue affecting healthcare systems worldwide.
During their half-hour conversation, Stone and Dalal explore the ethical, practical, and economic implications of developing a shared global aging services workforce. Creating that global workforce is “very tricky and very complex,” concludes Stone. Most importantly, it is an endeavor that no country can tackle alone.
Listen to Building a Sustainable Global Care Workforce to hear innovative ideas for how countries might collaborate on a master plan for aging that drives change and focuses on the possibilities of what we can do together.