Union stresses need for trained workers in elder care

Denmark

The FOA public services union has said that volunteers cannot plug the growing skills gap in the elder care sector. Responding to the minister for social welfare’s call for more volunteers, the union argues that proper elder care requires skilled workers and the combination of recruitment shortages and the growing number of elderly means that an additional 70,000 workers will be needed in the sector by 2019.
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