Eldercare Workforce Alliance

The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA), a project of the Tides Center, is a coalition of 35 US national organizations that came together to focus on short- and long-term healthcare workforce issues relating to older adults. The Alliance helped pass the 2018 Raise Family Caregivers Act, supports ongoing funding for the Title VII Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program, and advocates for including elder care in government and professional policies, including related questions of educating and maintaining the labor force such care requires.

Overview
In response to the Institute of Medicine's report Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Healthcare Workforce, over twenty organizations that represent consumers, family caregivers, the direct care workforce, and healthcare professions, joined together with the aim of delivering high-quality care to an aging population. As the baby-boomers retire, caring for the America's older adults will become a growing challenge.

The organization supports additional training in geriatrics for health care professionals, including home care workers and revising the companionship exemption, a provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act that excludes home care aides from receiving minimum wage and overtime protections. In February 2013 the Eldercare Workforce Alliance wrote on this topic in a Huffington Post article titled "The State of Quality Care Demands Quality Jobs".

Member organizations
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance consists of 28 organizations:


 * AARP
 * Administration for Community Living
 * Alzheimer's Association
 * Alzheimer's Foundation of America
 * AMDA: LTC Medicine
 * American Academy of Nursing
 * American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
 * The American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing
 * American Geriatrics Society (Alliance Co-Convener)
 * American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living
 * American Nurses Association
 * American Physical Therapy Association
 * American Psychological Association
 * American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
 * American Society on Aging
 * Caring Across Generations
 * The Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research
 * Center For Health and Social Care Integration
 * Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations
 * Community Catalyst
 * Cooperative Development Foundation
 * Council on Social Work Education
 * Family Caregiver Alliance
 * Gerontological Society of America
 * Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
 * Health Resources and Services Administration
 * LeadingAge
 * National Alliance for Caregiving
 * National Association for Geriatric Education
 * National Association of Social Workers
 * The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care
 * National Council on Aging
 * National Hispanic Council on Aging
 * National Pace Association
 * THE GREEN HOUSE Project
 * Office of Women's Health (department of Housing and Human Services)
 * New York Academy of Medicine/Social Work Leadership Institute
 * PHI - Quality Care through Quality Jobs (Alliance Co-Convener)
 * Service Employers International Union
 * USAGING
 * U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Federal Liaison)