Eldercare Workforce Alliance

Grant Summary

The Foundation awarded a grant to The Tides Center to support the Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA), a coalition of 25 national organizations that have joined together to address the immediate and future workforce crisis in caring for an aging America. The EWA was created in response to the Institute of Medicine’s report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, which called for immediate investments in preparing our health care system to care for older Americans and their families. The EWA’s structure represents four main interests: consumers of care; paraprofessional direct care workers; health care professionals, both generalists and geriatric specialists; and the health care industry.