Stone Presents Testimony at Senate Special Committee on Aging

Posted: April 21, 2008

Dr. Robyn Stone, executive director of IFAS, testified before the Senate Special Committee on Aging. In her testimony, Stone makes recommendations for improving the long-term care workforce crisis. Stone lays out five goals around which to organize workforce improvement. Some of these goals include, expanding the supply of new people entering the long-term care field, creating more competitive long-term care jobs through wage and benefit, and making better investments in workforce education and development.

Additionally, Dr. Stone says, "The growing demand for long-term care, resulting from aging baby boomers and a much smaller pool of traditional caregivers, means the future will be immeasurably worse without decisive action by both public and private sectors."

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