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QUEENSBURY | According to the NYS Office for the Aging, by 2030, more than one-third of the population in most North Country counties will be over 60 years of age…

…The purpose of the group’s upcoming workshop is to inform AAUW – Adirondack Branch members and the wider community about the overall home health care (HHC) needs and planning issues for North Country residents who want to age in place in their homes. In partnership with the University at Albany, SUNY, AAUW will host a workshop where community members will be provided information about what they will need to age in place.

Health Care Workforce Needs for Aging in Place: Home Health Care in the North Country Compared with New York State. Keynote: Robert Martiniano, Dr. PH, MPA; Senior Program Manager for the Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS); School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY will present the overall issues, examples of results from the CHWS survey, and provide overall conclusions & insights. He will compare the CHWS results germane to NYS and the Adirondack region.

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ALBANY — Details of a new report on the health care industry may be news to a lot of people, but the conclusion should surprise no one: The health workforce is seeing continued, strong growth. The University at Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies announced the report results Thursday and noted that home health care and ambulatory care are showing particularly strong job growth: 136 percent and 30 percent, respectively, between 2000 and 2014. Overall health care employment jumped 24 percent statewide during that period.

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The health care sector is expected to grow about 22 percent between 2014 and 2024, according to a new UAlbany CHWS report. Between 2004 and 2014, jobs in the health care sector grew 20 percent, compared to three percent for all other sectors, according to a recent report by the University at Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS). The trend is expected to continue as the health care industry is projected to grow much faster than other industries through the next decade as well.

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Between 2004 and 2014, jobs in the health care sector grew 20 percent, compared to three percent for all other sectors, according to a recent report by the University at Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS). The trend is expected to continue as the health care industry is projected to grow much faster than other industries through the next decade as well.

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