Future thinking on labour shortage in care

• Current and future thinking on how to get more resources into home healthcare, what is written on this topic?
• Current and future thinking on crowd-sourced business models in healthcare, what is possible within the current legal boundaries and quality standards?

<aside> ❗ Super interesting report:

Arbeidsmarktsituatie-wijkverpleging-eindrapport 1.PDF

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What will impact labour shortages in the future?

• Laws and regulations
• Politics and policy
  • More care at people’s homes
  • Policies to reduce bureaucracy
  • Programme ‘Choosing care’
• Economics
  • Recession and budget cuts unlikely for now, but likely in the future
• Demographic
  • Aging
  • Population growth
  • Smaller households
  • More cultural diversity
• Societal
  • Elderly wish to live at home for longer
  • More chronic ilnesses and comorbidity
  • Reduction of potential informal carers by 50%
• Technological
  • Domotica - robots in the home - helps people to be more independent
  • Solutions that help people with dementia
  • eHealth - sensors and platforms for all sorts of things
  • Digitalising work processes
  • Processes to increase tech savvyness of care workers
• Living environment
  • Alternative forms of living, for example combining home health with institutions
  • Providing carers with a home in exchange for working in care

What makes working in home healthcare attractive?

• Being able to work with the same patient over longer periods of time
• High levels of autonomy compared to other healthcare industries, due to the fact that care workers mostly work on their own, or are responsible for patients by themselves

What makes working in home healthcare less attractive?

• Broken shifts lead to small contracts, peak hours in the morning and evening, with less productive hours in between, especially for lower level workers that cannot do other tasks like planning and ‘indiceren van zorg’ or preventative care
• Physically and psychologically hard work