Anyone notice what these “non-professional” degrees have in common?
Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers
Here’s a hint, look at the two least obvious ones:
43% of new architects are women:
https://www.ncarb.org/blog/new-architects-are-increasingly-diverse-explore-updated-demographics-data
And 60% of all accountants:
https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/accountant/demographics/
This is clearly a plan to minimize career paths for women.
Edit What the heck, lets check the rest of them…
92% of audiologists are women:
https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/audiologist/demographics/
88.8% of nurses:
https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/fact-sheets/nursing-workforce-fact-sheet
75% of physician assistants:
https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/physician-assistant/demographics/
70% of physical therapists:
https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/physical-therapist/demographics/
77% of educators:
81% of social workers:
https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/social-worker/demographics/
As the boomers reach EOL… fewer nurses.
Actually it’s a bigger problem than that. Birthrates are declining and have been below replacement rate for some time. Without another source of population (such as immigration) in the long term there will simply be more and more old people and fewer and fewer working age people to care for them.
Everyone who doesn’t die young will get old, and as your body starts breaking down from age you’re going to need help with things, and once the amount of help required exceeds being able to realistically live independently you’re looking at a nursing home. With fewer healthcare professionals these nursing homes will become more neglectful and those employees who are present will be less caring due to sheer burnout. This is a problem which will affect everyone.
Disability is the only class of people that anyone can join. Disability rights are everyone’s rights because anyone can become disabled!
I work maintenance at a retirement home/long term care facility and the outlook is fucking grim folks. I’m relieved that my parents will probably be able to afford to age in place, because I couldn’t stand them living someplace like where I work. It is pretty expensive on the independent side ($6k+/month), and starting to become understaffed on the medical side, with little hope of attracting new talent to our rural, high COL location. There’s a $3k signing bonus, great, that’ll help with the $100k student loans from nursing school that exposes them to way better offers in more accessible places to live. I do my best to make life better for our residents, but even my team is 2 people short of full and corporate won’t list a single new position. Here comes winter and heat runs failing because they haven’t been serviced in 20 years, snow storms we’ll have to plow with one less team member than last year, and the fucking flu/COVID. If you think COVID is over go ask the staff at a nursing home.
Sorry, rant over.
So I’m currently working my grandmother through this process and we stumbled upon the most cost effective option for independent living which is to hire a care person to come by 10 hours a week (cost my grandmother about $400/week for 10 hours per week). They’re there to help with cooking and cleaning which are most of what an independent living facility would provide. Throw an emergency pendant (something like $30-50 per month) and you have all of the of features of a $6k/mo independent living facility for less than $2k/month over their current housing costs
I’m not sure what to expect when my parents reach that age. At this point I’m more worried that they won’t be able to retire given their horrendous financial discipline. My in-laws seem on track to die young given the sheer quantity of alcohol they consume, the frequency with which they drink and drive, and their predisposition to riding motorcycles to go bar hopping. My grandmother however needs to be moved into a memory care facility ASAP because she is at the point that she really shouldn’t be living independently anymore