New research: Indicators of job quality in the Australian aged care workforce: A scoping review

Published 19th January 2022

This scoping review identifies papers published between 2010 and 2020 to describe the aged care workforce and how it is managed. The study explores parameters such as wages, employment quality, education and training, working conditions, work/life balance and consultative participation and collective representation. The authors identified significant knowledge gaps regarding Australia's aged care workforce at a time when the sector is coming under fresh scrutiny and projections indicate that it will face critical labour shortfalls going forward.

Source:
Phillippa Carnemolla, Philip Taylor, Eyal Gringart, Claire Adams, 2022, Australasian Journal on Ageing (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajag.13030)