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September 22, 2008 |Permalink |Comments (1)
Monkhouse Mondays: 2025 and the care gap
Ingrid, a journalist from the Netherlands, interviewed me about the Eden-Alternative in Europe a few weeks ago. The name of the magazine she writes for is "2025“. The name was chosen because 2025 is the peak of ageing in the Netherlands. At the same time, it came to my mind that a large proportion of the current (also large) cohort of experienced nurses and other carers will be retired. A deep care-gap is foreseeable. Nobody seems alarmed. No true human resource policy or management initiatives are in sight. More so, nursing and caring worldwide undergoes serious devaluation*: "Widespread cost constraints and sociopolitical attitudes that devalue care, lead to erosion of working conditions, with resultant potentially catastrophic nurse shortages“. Is Europe sleepwalking into disaster?
As an ever optimistic person, this does not often happen to me, but somehow, for a day, I was left speechless.
*Original article: The Devaluation of Nursing: a position statement, by Helen Allan, Verena Tschudin and Khim Horton, University of Surrey, UK, published in Nursing Ethics 15 (4) 2008 p 549 - 556
-- Christa Monkhouse
Comments ( 1)
Dear Christa!
Thank you for your highlight on the important question of how nursing care will be provided in the future, when so many (of us!) might be in need for care. Indeed there is no strategy in sight to face this. I believe that we will be dependent on "migration forces" here in Switzerland to fill the gap, since already now the nursing schools have great difficulties to get enough students. The question is: How can we socialize nurses and other health care workers that will come here to our standards and views quickly and effectively?
What do you think?
Greetings from Zurich
Vincenzo