Eldercare Workforce Alliance
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 in geriatrics 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]
- AARP
- Alzheimer's Association
- Alzheimer's Foundation of America
- AMDA: LTC Medicine
- American Academy of Nursing
- American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
- American Geriatrics Society (Alliance Co-Convener)
- American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living
- American Nurses Association
- American Physical Therapy Association
- American Psychological Association
- American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
- American Society on Aging
- Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations
- Council on Social Work Education
- Direct Care Alliance
- Family Caregiver Alliance
- Gerontological Society of America
- LeadingAge
- National Alliance for Caregiving
- National Association for Geriatric Education
- The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care
- National Council on Aging
- National Hispanic Council on Aging
- NCB Capital Impact/THE GREEN HOUSE® Project
- New York Academy of Medicine/Social Work Leadership Institute
- PHI - Quality Care through Quality Jobs (Alliance Co-Convener)
- Service Employees International Union
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Federal Liaison)
References
- ↑ "Who We Are > About Us > Eldercare Workforce Alliance". Eldercareworkforce.org. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
- ↑ "Who We Are > About Us > Eldercare Workforce Alliance". Eldercareworkforce.org. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Who We Are > About Us > Eldercare Workforce Alliance". Eldercareworkforce.org. Retrieved 2013-08-18.