The demographic changes in society lead not only to an increasing number of elderly persons needing care, but also to a rising need of trained personnel in the care and assistance occupations. At the same time, the necessary skills are changing for many of the occupations in the health and care sectors. In this context, IWAK generates regularly current and future-oriented labour market and employment data through a monitoring system. This system shows at regional and national levels the match, or mis-match, of the occupational supply and demand for doctors and nursing care professionals. Supplementing this data are dedicated assessments of occupational education and advanced training situations and needs.

With the shift in preference from stationary to ambulatory care, domestic services in care and assistance for elderly persons are gaining in significance. IWAK studies the domestic household as a labour market segment. It evaluates the approaches and labour market political developments at the national and European level, as well as the efforts to optimize these in guidance to integrated health welfare.

A further emphasis is the analysis of professional biographies and progressions of various occupational groups in the health and care sectors. IWAK examines the objective conditions and subjective motives for occupational qualification, mobility and fluctuation. This is used to make predictive estimates of future needs in the field.

Available Competencies:

• IWAK has relevant methodological and field area expertise in the creation and maintenance of labour market monitoring systems as well as in the periodic electronic collection, analysis and presentation of this data.

• IWAK has, through its work, wide ranging contacts at the national and European levels in the areas of health and care. It also has corresponding competencies in the execution of national and international conferences and projects focusing on current issues, and the networking of actors within this sphere.

• IWAK has comprehensive competencies in methods (qualitative methods, survey analysis and process data, prognosis calculations) to analyse the professional histories, also for professional groups that are not easily accessible.

Current Projects :

• Career Paths of Geriatric Nurses

• Hessian Care Monitor

• Illegal Employment in Private Homes of the Elderly
  
  
  

Coordination:

Dr. Angela Joost
Tel.: +49 (0)69-798-23646
E-Mail: Joost@soz.uni-frankfurt.de