Aging healthcare workers
Keywords:
Aging healthcare worker, situation, problem, strategyAbstract
The aging of the world population has tremendous implications for healthcare industry causing numerous problems such as reducing work abilities, increasing health problems and occupational injuries. Some strategies have been proposed to resolve these problems in the aging healthcare workers such as assessing workplaces, developing less physically and responsibly demanding jobs, designing more flexible work schedules, and reducing working hours whilst retaining fringe benefits. In Thailand, there has a few researches in this situation and lacks support in policy and funds from the government, so these problems might cause impact on healthcare profession and their services. Therefore, the attention should be drawn to unleash the situation and to support future research on this topic.
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