According to a new report 25 percent of social and health care workers now have a non-Western background. That places new demands on language instruction in the training program, organizations say.
Care workers from non-Western countries are indispensable, report finds
According to Sara Lei Spare, an anthropologist and senior researcher at the Danish Center for Social Science Research (Vive), stronger language comprehension is one of the most important levers for ensuring that social and health care trainees with roots abroad make it successfully through their education. Arkivfoto: Martin Lehmann
Social- and healthcare workers from non-Western countries are increasingly indispensable in elder care.
That is clear from the latest Momentum report from Local Government Denmark (KL). It shows that the share of social- and healthcare workers from non-Western countries rose from 12 to 25 percent between 2016 and 2025. At the same time, a projection from the Ministry of Finance shows that today’s labor shortage in elder care will only grow. By 2035, the country could be short more than 23,000 social- and healthcare workers nationwide.
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