Why Are There Less Workers?

Simple answer- money! While post pandemic , most jobs had salary correction , that never happened for caretakers. Moreover, caretakers have lot of things to take care and time is essence for them. There are times they cannot take leave or enjoy time watching things as they need to monitoring senior citizens. But for efforts and time, caretakers are not given money or recognition they richly deserve. Plus the rise in inflation and the service mentality, these two are also important factors as well. Perhaps if some more benefits and hours are limited , perhaps there could be some more influx of caretakers.Take care!

I guess part of the reason may be that there are more and more looking for help, as you say. Maybe some of these people would have had to go into a nursing home by now.

It's a really challenging job with terrible pay and conditions. A lot don't have a lot of chance to get a decent amount of training. They're often responsible for medication and personal care, they're on their own with vulnerable people. While most people are OK, there are those who are awful towards their care givers yet those care givers still have a duty of care. I could go on but I won't.

I can only guess, but with inflation so bad, people might be looking for higher paying jobs out of necessity to make ends meet. That certainly would not explain the whole problem though.

A lot is how many people need help

Caregiving is hard work. Many folks who could do the job don't want to help with personal tasks, if you know what I mean. When I was caregiving I found it hard to get enough hours for it to be full time and consistently on top of that. At the time I also had my Mom around so I liked juggling small pay balanced with spending time with her.

Over here we had a lot of foreign workers who did these jobs, but with Brexit there has been a restriction on immigration and we have similar problems

It seems like there's a shortage of help in many areas. Do people not want to work anymore? Have a good weekend.

We have a similar problem.A fee years back there were a lot of workers.All of them villagers.Now their paddy fields are sold to industrialists.Many aluminum plants have popped up almost overnight.The villagers have now started their own business.Now workers are not easily available.

hee employers talk noone wants to work and when you apply, they don't call you so, hard to understand this situation sometimes.