The US will need to hire 2.3 million new health care workers by 2025 in order to adequately take care of its aging population, a new report finds. "Few other industries are racing the clock to find a future-ready workforce like today's health care administrators," said Jason Narlock, senior consultant with Mercer. Becoming a home health aide requires less education and training than other health care jobs. He said health care worker shortages are more pronounced in rural areas, where it's historically been harder to recruit doctors and nurses. "In local economies, the retail industry could present one of the largest pools of labor for health care systems to effectively retain workers for jobs such as home health aides," he said.

Source: CNN May 04, 2018 14:53 UTC