Bill Reintroduced to Address Geriatric Workforce Shortage

This just in from the Alzheimer's Foundation.....

U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on May 26 reintroduced the Caring for an Aging America Act, which is aimed at attracting doctors, nurses, social workers and other skilled healthcare workers to gerontology and geriatrics.      The bipartisan legislation would provide loan repayment opportunities in exchange for working in underserved areas, and would expand the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration's National Health Service Corps Program to include primary healthcare professionals with training in gerontology and geriatrics.      The act comes In response to the projected doubling in the 65+ population by 2030 and is grounded in recommendations found in "Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce," a report by the Institute of Medicine in 2008 that called for a labor pool of adequate size and competency to care for this population.