The federal government has launched a national campaign, A Life Changing Life, cheering more people to make careers in aged care and support workers.
It’s a great idea and a valuable tool, with the importance of cheering people from different societies to explore entering the aged care sector.
However, it doesn’t seem to set a budget or spell out any policies, including exercise. Sadly, the targeted societies do not include the clearest — Aussies aged 50-plus wanting to work.
That’s where National Seniors Australia can help. And we need the government to implement our practical and real-world solution to the worker- crisis, precisely in the home-care sector.
The new initiative is in response to a continuing shortage of aged and disability care workers as identified by several reports including 'Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.'
The report Aristocratic 'Care, Self-respect' highlighted modeling by Deloitte Access Economics which assessed that the number of direct care workers needed to maintain present staffing stages would be around 316,500 full-time equal by 2050, based on demographic movements and rates of use of aged care.
How it works?
Working with care workers, the government would meet the cost of as long as 2,000 traineeships a year. The program would be grounded on the successful South Australian experimental traineeship scheme, which links elder workers with a home-care provider.
Traineeship program benefits
· Meets the rising gap for home care workers.
· Encourages people to work in the home care community.
· Provides superior income and retirement for older people, mainly women.
· Provides care recipients with access to established and sympathetic workers—as is their preference.
· Australia needs 400,000 extra care workers by 2050.
· Mature-aged workers are not sufficiently serviced by prevailing Job training programs. The current Restart program is a failure with limited take-up of its $10,000 subsidies.
· ABS figures show 233,000 people aged 50-69 want to work either full or part-time (they are not in the labor force, not retired, and not currently employed).
To know more about Job training – Aged care certificate and diploma courses,
Visit: https://jti.edu.au/
