We have on Best of HR - Berufebilder.de® discussed very heatedly about the (non-existent) shortage of skilled workers, I will also be on the ARD tonight on this topic. We have dealt comparatively little with one area in which there is a real shortage of skilled workers: care for the elderly.

elderly care

Why is elder care so important?

Geriatric nursing is an important area of ​​healthcare that requires special skills and knowledge. The aging population is increasing worldwide and the demand for qualified geriatric nurses is increasing. However, the current workforce does not have the necessary skills to meet the growing demand for elderly care. The shortage of skilled workers in geriatric care is a major challenge awareness required by policy makers, healthcare providers and educators.

In particular, there is growing concern about the lack of skilled workers in this field, particularly in developed countries where population aging is more pronounced. The deficiency affects the Quality of life elderly patients and their families and is an urgent one Problem, which requires immediate action. The lack of professionals with the necessary skills and knowledge poses a major challenge, especially for healthcare providers striving to needs meet older patients.

Qualification and training deficits: How did the shortage of skilled workers in nursing come about?

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The shortage of skilled workers in elderly care is a complex problem that is exacerbated by various factors. These include the lack of specialized training and Further Training for healthcare professionals, low remuneration and insufficient resources to support aged care providers. The shortage has resulted in an increased workload and a Burnout of geriatric nurses, resulting in high turnover rates and poor patient outcomes.

The aged care industry is diverse and includes healthcare professionals such as nurses, doctors, social workers and physical therapists. Each of these professions plays a critical role in providing quality care to older adults. However, the shortage of skilled workers in elderly care has reached alarming proportions, leaving many healthcare facilities struggling to find and retain competent staff. This shortage can be attributed to a variety of factors, including an aging workforce, low salaries and difficult working conditions.

Care for the elderly - the only real shortage of skilled workers?

Already, the situation in many nursing homes is unreasonable: too little workforce, but more and more to do. Nursing home care could be a real future profession - if only the lousy payment would not be.

The discrepancy between the hard work and the barren wage as well as the increasing life expectancy of the population also lead to the fact that the care of the elderly is treated as a secure shortage job - junior staff urgently sought.

New laws have to come

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But what do you do when workers are needed but the job doesn't turn you on? Well, you make him more attractive without further ado – geriatric care than Marketing-Gag, so to speak.

And that by simply merging several professions that are said to overlap considerably in terms of content. This is how you can read in a key points paper of the federal state working group "Further development of nursing professions":

The cornerstones

Based on the coalition agreement for the 17th legislative period, the Federal Ministry responsible for geriatric care training intends to Family, Senior citizens, Women and youth and the Federal Ministry of Health, which is responsible for health and nursing education as well as health and children's nursing education, to fundamentally modernize and merge nursing education.

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The geriatric care training, the health and nursing training and the health and pediatric nursing training are combined to form a generalist nursing training and as a vocational training Vocational Training regulated in part 1 of the law.

Reasons for the project

The reasons for this plan can also be found relatively openly in the key issues paper. The measure primarily aims to counteract the feared shortage of skilled workers:

In times of demographic change, the labor market in the nursing service sector requires the flexible and universal use of skilled nurses.
The differentiation of nursing professions according to age groups no longer corresponds to the state of the art in nursing science.

The merger of the nursing professions increases the attractiveness of the training occupation for Boy People. The professional commitment and development opportunities are improved over the entire period of working life and thus individual job satisfaction is strengthened.

Care for the elderly as a marketing gag?

In the text of the text: On the other hand, the number of possible emergency forces (I express this at this point deliberately) should be increased by creating a broader base of flexibly deployable specialists.

On the other hand, by merging with supposedly more attractive age groups Job be made more attractive through the back door. Care for the elderly becomes a kind of marketing gimmick.

There is now opposition to this project Resistance. In June, the Alliance for Care for the Elderly launched an ePetition against the proposed legislation and has compiled all sorts of material on the subject on its website.

Experts' self-made

So writes about Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Sahmel from the Department of Nursing Education at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen:

“Elderly care is not nursing. Working with the elderly means maintaining and promoting the quality of life within the scope of existing opportunities. ”

One must ask oneself whether the Federal Government makes the practical deficit, which it really wants to prevent, practically by itself by means of this law.


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