Not enough people will do this work at this wage. Created by paid care: the demographic pyramid inverts and the labour is not there.
This is a need. Something a person cannot ignore. Non-negotiable, usually urgent, and the most reliable foundation for a business. It is felt by the society, continuously, and rates 4 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Scarce resources.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Home care and home health aides — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Care workforce wages and immigration policy and Care robotics and remote monitoring
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionNot enough people will do this work at this wage
- SolutionHome care and home health aides
- FrictionCannot manage washing, dressing, eating, or moving alone
- Life phaseDecline
- Rooted inSafety
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inShelter
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.