And, in the next 12 years, 40% of middle-class older workers will be poor and near poor elders.
But hidden elder joblessness is workers much higher; over 3 million older workers trapped in hidden unemployment include those working part time, but want full time work, and those who want a job and who have stopped looking for full-time.
I would also suggest projects to train large numbers of health care and elder care workers.
This article focuses on live-in elder care workers in German-speaking Switzerland, with a focus on the city of Basel.
Before smartphones and the internet, nannies, housecleaners and elder care workers have had to juggle multiple schedules, clients and skills and manage their work independently.
Nannies, elder care workers, and housecleaners might have years of experience, but that isn't enough to thrive on a marketplace platform.
For example, Somerville ([2006]) finds among elder care workers in Australia that though they did not originally intend to pursue this vocation, they became increasingly engaged with their work and developed a strong vocational identity over time.
However, unlike the two English speaking countries, the "marketization" of care services in Japan and South Korea is much more regulated as the state continues to maintain significant control over the cost of the services and certification and licensing of child care and elder care workers (Peng, 2010).
The study is a cross-sectional study of municipal elder care workers in Aarhus (the second largest city in Denmark).
This study was an observational follow-up study of all elder care workers who worked the entire year of 2004 in the municipality of Aarhus, Denmark (N=2774).
