Eldercare Workforce Alliance Renewal

Grant Summary

This renewal grant supports the Eldercare Workforce Alliance’s continued communications, educational activities, and advocacy to promote policies supporting a better-prepared workforce to care for the nation’s aging population. The Eldercare Workforce Alliance comprises 31 organizations—representing consumers and family caregivers, health care professionals, direct care workers, and the health care industry—that was formed to advocate for implementation of recommendations from the 2008 Institute of Medicine report, Retooling for an Aging America. The report called for increased competence among all health care professionals, more geriatrics specialists across disciplines, and the use of evidence-based models that utilize the workforce effectively.