Unemployment is still one of the greatest problems in India. There’s a great deal of the population of our country who are still unemployed. At the same time, experts agree that there is a shortage of healthcare workers. It begs the question, why is there a shortage of healthcare workers when the unemployment rate is staggeringly high? Despite the depressing unemployment report in a depressed economic climate where few jobs are in demand, healthcare vacancies are still the highest of any industry. A demand for healthcare services would result in increased demand for healthcare workers that will service specifically the growing number of adults who are 65 years or older. By the year 2020, there will be more than 19-54 million people of over age 65 and that is an increase from the current rate 12.5% to 20% of the US population.

The nursing shortage is the by-product of more lucrative options for women, an aging workforce, unsatisfactory conditions for older nurses, and the decline of the young and minorities’ attraction to a nursing career. The nursing shortage might have started in 1988 and peaked in 2002, which was the timeline when government and private payer reimbursement plan declined, hospitals were forced to be downsized. This contributed to increased workload and stress to the remaining nurses who found the working conditions unacceptable and thus left the profession in search for other job.

It remains to be determined whether there is an absolute shortage of health professionals or just a faulty distribution of health professionals in certain areas, but one thing is certain – the American population is aging. The impact of the aging process on the U.S. healthcare system will be mostly felt in the next 50 years as both the population and the healthcare workforce ages. If current utilization of healthcare continues, it is inevitable that the number of skilled healthcare workforce have to expand as well. Among many, the major reasons for the shortage of labour is an aging workforce, diversity inequality, lack of educational training and career advancement opportunities.