Staff Shortages Impacting Nursing Homes and Home Healthcare Businesses
The senior care industry has been crushed by the worst caregiver shortage in history. The confluence of a global pandemic and increased unemployment benefits have resulted in families across the country coming up empty-handed in their search for help.
Caregivers left nursing homes and care facilities in droves when working conditions plummeted in the early months of the Covid-19 lockdown. Many shifted to homecare. But as conditions in care facilities continue to decline, the incredible surge in demand for homecare services has created an unprecedented deficit in the supply of caregivers.