Germany's health-care sector hit by skilled labor shortage – DW – 11/16/2024
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Germany stands in urgent need of health-care workers as the population ages, according to a report. Unfilled vacancies for physiotherapists and dental assistants were at a high level in 2023/2024, it says.

Summary

Germany faces a critical shortage of health-care workers, with 47,400 unfilled positions in 2023/2024, particularly for physiotherapists (11,600 vacancies), dental assistants (7,350), and nursing staff (7,100), according to a study by the German Economic Institute (IW).

The aging population is driving increased health-care demand, with those aged 65+ projected to rise from 21% to 29% by 2030.

The study highlights a broader labor market issue, with over 530,000 skilled worker vacancies across all industries, including 42,000 in construction-related fields.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Yeah, I saw where this was going. You have a thing against studying.

    Not at all. Learning pointless stuff and producing pointless doctorates is not studying it’s wasting time and effort. Whatever happened to the virtue of laziness.

    I don’t know what you mean with the second paragraph. I already don’t believe in that sort of voodoo.

    The physiotherapy part isn’t voodoo it’s just off-brand.

    They still hawk homeopathic mumbo jumbo at pharmacies

    You could call it placebopathic and people would still go for it because wanting symbolic reinforcement of your wishes is a very human thing. Medicine shouldn’t be in the business of telling humanity how to be on a fundamental level, that’s a battle for philosophers, but in the business of providing health. The current situation around homeopathy is not ideal, especially those prices for sugar cubes are ludicrous, but this reductive “everyone’s an idiot and everything’s pointless” attitude isn’t making it any better, either. What would your way to kiss a boo-boo be?