Geriatric nurses, nurses, midwives: Germany urgently seeks skilled workers worldwide
Hamburg – The demand for caregivers in Germany has risen almost 50% since 2015([i] ). Currently there is a shortage of 35,000 workers among geriatric and other nursing staff alone. While there is a similar lack of midwives too, where the number of vacancies has doubled since 2017([ii] ). By 2030, the shortage of workers in the healthcare sector will increase to just under one million people – in addition to 165,000 physicians, there will be a shortage of 800,000 non-medical healthcare professionals ([iii] ). Without