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  1. Report on the Future of Care and the Caregiving Workforce

    GCOA and Home Instead, the world’s largest home care network for older adults, published a global report on November 2, 2022, titled Key Insights & Proposed Solutions from the Future of Care and the Caregiving Workforce: Lessons and Insights from the COVID-19 Experience.  The report, based on a workshop of more than 100 global leaders…

  2. Report on the Workforce’s Post-Pandemic Retirement Outlook

    A June 2022 report from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS) in collaboration with Transamerica Institute finds that fewer than three in 10 workers (29 percent) believe they are saving enough for retirement. The report, Emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Retirement Outlook of the Workforce, is part of TCRS’ 22nd Annual Retirement Survey,…

  3. Infographic on Vision Health and the Future of Work

    Left unaddressed, presbyopia and other preventable visual impairments will have cascading impacts across healthcare and the 21st century workplace. This infographic, created in partnership with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, outlines many of the these impacts and associated costs. The paper calls for actions by policymakers and employers to prevent avoidable visual…

  4. Advocacy Brief on Healthy Vision

    More than 2.2 billion people worldwide have a visual impairment or vision loss, and this number is poised to grow because the risk increases with age. Over 90% of vision impairment worldwide is avoidable. However, an estimated 802 million older people across the world are living with preventable vision loss but have no access to…

  5. Report on Caregiving and 21st Century Employer Benefits

    In November 2021, GCOA released a report linking 21st century employer benefits to a new social contract for how to meet growing employee needs in our aging society. The new report, Shining a Spotlight on Caregiving: Employer Practices Through a Policy Lens, offers five principles that will transform how we understand and approach this topic: Work should not…

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