Filling the Care Gap: Integrating Foreign-Born Nurses and Personal Care Assistants into the Field of Long-Term Services and Supports

The LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston worked with the Global Ageing Network to explore the role of migrant/immigrant professional caregivers in delivering long-term services and supports (LTSS) to the world’s growing older population.

Contact: Natasha Bryant

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Filling the Care Gap: Integrating Foreign-Born Nurses and Personal Care Assistants into the Field of Long-Term Services and Supports

This report presents the characteristics of the foreign-born LTSS workforce; identifies benefits and challenges associated with hiring and retaining foreign-born workers; describes the relationships between foreign-born workers and their coworkers, care recipients, and employers; and explores issues affecting quality of care.

A Picture of Foreign-Born Workers in Long-Term Services and Supports

This research snapshot provides an overview of the prevalence, characteristics, countries of origin, and migration routes of foreign-born nurses and personal care assistants. It also reviews governmental policies that affect the ability of migrants/immigrants to work in host countries.

Hiring and Integrating Foreign-Born Nurses and Personal Care Assistants in Long-Term Services and Supports

This research snapshot provides an overview of the benefits, challenges, and promising strategies associated with recruiting and retaining foreign-born workers and integrating them into an aging services organization.