The future of the long-term care workforce is an important policy question given the
unprecedented rate of decline in the number of available paraprofessional workers. In this
report, authors Stone and Wiener examine factors contributing to the workforce shortage,
efforts to retain numbers and develop a quality workforce and research options that may
contribute to policy formulation in this critical area. Low recruitment and high turnover have
reduced the frontline long-term care workforce. Regulatory policy largely ignores workers' …