German citizens grow continuously older. One of the reasons for this development is an ongoing improvement of medical care. As a result, this development leads to an increase of people in need of care and, accordingly, confronts society with the challenge of organising this increasing need. An adequate supply of well trained care workers is here essential for the present as well as for the future. But specialists need valid and differentiated labour market data about the future development of supply of and demand for care workers to allow for an accurately fitting planning of training and personnel.
The Hessian Care Monitor is a web-based information and prognosis system. It continuously describes the state of care workers in the different regions of Hesse. Current data presents information about oversupply and lack of trained workers in the different areas of elderly care and nursing as well as about the regional differentiated demand for care workers of the different work fields. In addition, the Care Monitor offers through an integrated panel of specialists an estimation of future developments. Interested parties in Hesse can access the regularly updated information through an electronic information platform. Therefore, they are a basis for accurately fitting planning and regulation.
