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Projected Job Growth for Caregivers (2024-2034)
Estimated employment increase for home health and personal care aides.
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Robots And Rethinking Labor In An Aging Workforce - Forbes
The Role Of Robotics In An Aging World Some organizations are exploring ways to redesign how work gets done by scaling efforts such as robotics. Amazon now runs more than 1 million robots across ...
How Aging Is Reshaping the Job Market - Business Insider
The aging population will likely affect workforce demand. FreshSplash/Getty Images 2026-04-26T09:36:01.282Z AI is shaping how people work, but another "A" word is having a large effect on the job market. The aging population will affect demand for new workers, especially in healthcare. Employment of home health and personal care aides, an already large occupation, is projected to increase. Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, everyone from the C-suite to new grads looking for their first job has been wondering what AI means for the future of work. Some employees are using it to get tasks done and worry about what AI means for job security. Job seekers are using it for their résumés and outreach messages. Some employers are citing it as a reason they're laying people off.But that's not the only A-word shaping the job market. "Even as artificial intelligence and its uncertain impact grabs headlines, it is another A—aging—that stands to unequivocally reshape the U.S. labor market over the next decade," a post from Nela Richardson, ADP's chief economist, and Tim Decker, senior principal data scientist at the ADP Research Institute, said.Richardson told Business Insider that the US is "rapidly turning into not just a service economy, but a healthcare-driven economy."Last year, the rest of the economy, excluding private healthcare, lost jobs. The sector will need to bring in even more talent to care for an aging population and offset healthcare workers' retirements. Meanwhile, other industries like construction are facing a retirement cliff: Highly skilled baby boomer workers like plumbers and electricians are leaving the workforce, and there aren't enough young workers coming in to fill in the gaps. There's a lot of uncertainty about how much AI will affect the workplace over time and what will be automated or replaced completely, even in healthcare. There's more certainty that aging is a structural issue that will continue to affect employers' needs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the aging population will mean more demand for long-term care and therapy services."AI may be the economy's future, but aging is its present," Richardson said.The boom of home health and personal care aidesDemand for home health and personal care aides is set to boom; BLS estimates employment in this already large occupation will increase by 739,800 between 2024 and 2034, more than any other career. Richardson said we're pretty far from the futuristic experiences of...
Aging workers are in demand; they are reliable, mature and professional
The first boomers, those of us born between 1946 and 1964, celebrated our 65th birthdays in 2011 but many of them opted to keep working. The online employment agency, Indeed, said these aging workers are in demand.
States are innovating on labor market data. The feds could, too
For example, existing federal surveys have helped assess the impact of economic shocks and evaluate how much job churn could be driven by AI. At the same time, ...
