January 3, 2009 front page
A Jan. 3 Boston Globe editorial titled “Bracing for the Age Wave” urges President-elect Obama not to procrastinate in developing policies to address America’s aging population.
“The Obama’s administration will have to starkly change the way the nation provides healthcare and housing for its elderly if the ‘gray tsunami’ of the boomers is not to overwhelm the medical system and swamp state and federal budgets with red ink,” said the Globe.
The piece also highlights the Institute of Medicine report released last April, a report that calls for concrete improvements in the quality of direct-care jobs including:
- More, and more effective, education and training;
- Increased wages and benefits; and
- Improvements to the work environment, such as empowerment strategies and culture change.
