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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
By Glenn Freiboth
 In case you have been living in a cave, the reality is that the baby boomer generation is surging toward retirement age and the fact that there is a growing need to find a bigger work force to tend to the millions of boomers who will in the not too distant future need ongoing care due to age, illness or a combination of both. Baby Boomers will be facing a whole host of physical and mental frailties.
There will be huge increase in America's elderly population in the next few decades. The labor pool that has traditionally cared for these people made up mainly of woman from their mid-20s to mid-50s will hardly grow at all which will compound the problem of an existing work force that is earning low wages and has a high turnover rate.
Statistics prove that nearly 3 million people work in direct-care jobs who work mainly with the elderly as nursing assistants, home health aids and personal care aids.
Leading experts say that 1 million more health care workers will be needed in the next decade. And it gets |
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
By Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson
 Most of us were raised by our parents. Some of us go on to be parents ourselves. But what happens when the parents who raised us need parenting?
This phenomenon which I will call re-parenting is occurring more and more today. Since none of us plan to get old and need help what happens whether we like it or not is that we get old and we need help. Many of us have not made wills, powers of attorney, estate plans, health directives and many of us do not think about this until the inevitable, a health emergency occurs. Why plan ahead when we can always act in crises later? Why not put off what we can do another day?
The truth is planning ahead is better. It is less stressful and we feel less inclined to make a bad decision because of pressure to make a decision. Sure we children do not want to talk about what happens when our parents age so we talk amongst ourselves and keep our parents out of the discussion. |
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