Home Care Industry Will Encounter 'Care Gap' Soon

As baby boomers "begin encountering the frailties of old age, the nation will face a widening 'care gap' that experts fear will compromise the quality of home care and force people into nursing homes too soon," the Dallas Morning News reports. The U.S., which today has about one million home care aides, will need as many as one million additional workers by 2017 and as many as three million more by 2030, according to experts. The growth in demand will come from the age-65-and-over population doubling in the next 25 years, in addition to a preference for receiving care at home instead of in nursing homes, according to the Morning News.

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