Rapidly emerging technological advances have the potential to mitigate a portion of the rising workforce demand due to an aging population and the increasing chronic disease burden. They may help people remain in their homes, assist long-term care (LTC) facilities in their efforts to care for the aging, and/or improve home health and home care worker recruitment, retention, and efficiency.

Little is known about how technological advances will affect the size, skills, and training needs of the workforce required to care for aging Americans. This report addresses this knowledge gap with a scan of available technologies currently or soon to be in use for and by consumers and/or LTC workers; it also assesses which of these may facilitate, replace, or enhance recruitment, training, and retention of the LTC
workforce.