Nearly 70% of care service providers in Japan face labor shortage

with the career often seen as less appealing due to its low wages and heavy workload.

This economic conundrum for Japan Inc. answered in the first paragraph.

These care institutions are often run by cash flush conglomerates like Benesse.

The solution they will come to of course is more LDP-Japan Inc synergy bringing in Filipina and Indonesian and other care workers, to be subsidized by the public.

Supply and demand.

3.76 million yen per year ? What a pittance.

Old people should pay for service.

The average annual salary for caregivers with at least two years of experience stood at 3.76 million yen in 2021.

over half cited difficulty in securing high-quality personnel,

They want to have high quality personnel with that stagnant salary? They already have opening for caregivers,

https://www.ssw.go.jp/about/ssw/nursing_care/

with failing yen less and less candidate really interested.

Japan facing labor shortages, due to its low wages and heavy workload.

you might as well trademark this, and put it on a shirt.

it’ll be constantly used, as long as nothing changes.

so where is all the munnee people have been paying into the 介護保険 kaigo-hoken 'scheme'.... ???

Raise salaries and watch the shortage disappears!

How a society treats its children and the aged shows its progress.

In Japan both groups get short shrift…

thanks kishida...

Basically the same situation as in the US, terrible wages for health care jobs will naturally lead to staff shortages and everyone loses.

Everyone? Oh no! There are greedy, corrupt owners are making a fortune.

People prefer to work for a livable wage. 'Nuff said.

Care workers and hospital staff around the world are facing the same ordeal. They are NOT valued members of society because they are there, and taken for granted. Yet not one politician has ever stepped up and volunteered to do their job for even a day, because they are weak individuals who care for themselves only.

In spite of the low pay it may be a rewarding job to help people. Thanks.

That's a no-brainer in a shrinking and aging society. Only a fewer already old people are left for intensively caring the more and more older than themselves ones. That's simply not going to work well for either of them.

Put the wages up, watch the shortage disappear.

Caregiving is a very tough job requiring a great deal of patience with clients often being unstable mentally and physically. They need to be washed, you have to help them with the bathroom, they can become violent and abusive. You need qualified, experienced people with specific skills not just anyone looking for a job. Or you better have a very good training program. I doubt people will flock to this kind of work just because you increase pay a little.

These caregivers a highly skilled workers which are grossly underpaid. But these companies keep filling their book knowing that they will have to employ unskilled workers. This is a very dangerous practice by employers incident will happen.

You could treble the salary, I'd still rather work the refuse trucks.

Simple, Pay the proper wages, Problem Solved.

What I am reading is there will be no one to take care of anyone, because everyone is too old, therefore leaving you on your own to take care of yourself and dying lonely.