Expanding Employment Pathways for Pacific Islanders in the Australian and New Zealand Aged Care Sectors
The aged and community care sectors in Australia and New Zealand are widely expected to expand rapidly over the coming decades. The forces that have led to ageing in Australia and New Zealand is the lower probability of death at all ages and, to a...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/436191529491548553/Expanding-employment-pathways-for-Pacific-Islanders-in-the-Australian-and-New-Zealand-aged-care-sectors http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30208 |
| Summary: | The aged and community care sectors in
Australia and New Zealand are widely expected to expand
rapidly over the coming decades. The forces that have led to
ageing in Australia and New Zealand is the lower probability
of death at all ages and, to a lesser extent, the weakening
of the social and economic drivers for large families are
common among many countries in the region. In these two
countries, however, they are taking hold at such a rate,
that they are likely to move into an entirely unfamiliar
demographic environment. Existing aged care services will
not be able to deliver the quantity and quality of services
needed over the coming decades, without the workforce
required to do so. Australia and New Zealand’s nearest
neighbors, the Pacific Island Countries (PICs), face a
vastly different demographic challenge. The overall
population of the PICs is expected to grow by some fifty
percent over the next twenty years. The findings of this
research indicate that demographic trends in both Australia
and New Zealand are causing sectoral changes in aged care
which require more skilled workers to match growing demand. |
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