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There is a national acute shortage of health care personnel at all levels-- from physicians and nurses, psychologists, social workers, allied health professionals to direct care workers in nursing homes. This shortage is fast becoming a crisis as the baby-boomer population hits 65 and older.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, the Mass. Democrats urge greater financial support for training programs in elder care, loan forgiveness programs for those concentrating in geriatrics, and the development of new and collaborative models of geriatric care.