JOB MARKET TRENDS: Ageing population leads to growing demand for practical nurses and caregivers in Jamaica.

 

Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer, director of the Mona Ageing and Wellness Centre at the University of the West Indies, says the prevalence of chronic diseases and an increasing population of citizens over 80 years have led to growing demand for practical nurses in Jamaica.

Eldemire-Shearer was a special guest of the Practical Nurses Association's virtual launch of the inaugural Nursing Support Workers' Day in Jamaica on Wednesday, November 10. Nursing Support Workers' Day will be observed on November 23.

"We have a lot of chronic disease and the increasing population of the over 80 also means frailty. Younger people in families migrate, leaving older people at home and COVID-19 has certainly taken its toll on our population," she highlighted... Read more

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