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Article: Researchers focus on impending staffing crisis in nursing homes.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- May 10, 2004
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2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- National studies have shown employee turnover at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in the U.S. to be close to 100% a year - one of the highest among any occupation.
The reasons aren't a surprise: low pay, frequent hard work, back injuries from heavy lifting, and the lack of status associated with such jobs.
Experts say that unless something is done, the problem will worsen in coming decades as the baby-boom generation of the 1940s and 1950s ages into tomorrow's elderly population. Inadequate staffing translates into worse health and lower quality of life for nursing home residents.
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