Home Instead seeks 25,000 care professionals to help curb elder ... - PR Newswire
As 11,000 baby boomers turn 65 each day in 2023, in-home care professionals are essential and help ease strain in other sectors OMAHA, Neb. , Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- While the totality of the reported labor shortage is vast and complex – only 5.7 million unemployed Americans to fill 10 million open positions – a number of factors point to in-home care professionals as both essential to the needs of the skyrocketing aging population and as a potential solution to help ease the workforce strain in other sectors. Home Instead®, the leading provider of in-home care for older adults, is appealing to America's workforce to consider a career in caregiving. With a current workforce of 65,000 Care Pros, Home Instead franchises across North America hope to hire more than 25,000 care professionals in 2023. Among the industries with the largest employment gaps is caregiving, which will require more than one million new care professionals by 2030 when the last baby boome...