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Caring for elderly people is a struggle for most public sector organisations around the world. Especially troublesome is the task of attracting, recruiting, and retaining competent employees to work in the elderly care sector (Johansson & Moss, 2004; National Commission on Nursing Workforce for Long-Term Care, 2005).
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Rönnqvist, D., Wallo, A., Nilsson, P., Davidson, B. (2015). Employee Resourcing In Elderly Care. In: Bohlinger, S., Haake, U., Jørgensen, C.H., Toiviainen, H., Wallo, A. (eds) Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty. Research on the Education and Learning of Adults. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-244-8_10
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