Increasing demands in long-term care for older people and a decrease in workforce availability can be expected in the future.
Annual estimates of productivity losses and absenteeism due to VI&B in the USA and Canada range from US$ PPP 4974 to 5724 million, and are estimated to be US$ PPP 7367 million for an overall decrease in workforce participation in the USA (table 5).
The final three scenarios represent obvious implications and consequences, which are summed up in Table 2.> The "Pharmacy-Mall" scenario is the one that offers community pharmacists fewer chances for professional development, besides representing a likely sharp decrease in workforce numbers.
From their release: "To put this into context, the overall economy only grew 0.7% and the fossil fuel electric generation industry actually experienced a 2% decrease in its workforce during that same period.
There are a number of important changes associated with these trends, such as decreases in average working hours and differences between cohorts in preferences about workforce participation.
To maintain and expand the future pharmacy workforce, increases in recruitment and retention will be essential, as will decreases in attrition, where possible.
A 2016 Atlantic article hypothesized that the main reason we're decreasing in productivity as a workforce is that we're not introducing new technologies quickly enough.
Therefore, the 44percentnt of Australian psychiatrists currently aged 50 or more are likely to decrease their workforce participation as they head towards retirement, reducing the effective supply of the workforce even while they remain in it.
Substantially increased numbers of older people and decreasing proportions in the workforce, together mean that services to assist older people to maximise their health and wellbeing and remain living independently in the community will become increasingly more essential.
