title: Foreign-born aged care workers in Australia: A growing trend.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To address Australian aged care workforce challenges, a deeper understanding of the current care workforce is needed especially given estimated increases in demand. We provide a national picture of the aged care workforce in Australia focusing on country of birth.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from the 2006 and 2011 Australian censuses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The majority of care workers are Australia-born followed by those born in the United Kingdom, South-East Asia and South Asia. While the number of carers from all regions has grown, the increase from 2006 to 2011 has been highest for carers from South Asia (333% increase) and sub-Saharan Africa (145%). The state with the largest decrease in the proportion of Australian-born care workers is Western Australia where Australian-born workers dropped from 62% in 2006 to 49% in 2011.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Understanding the migration patterns of the aged care workforce in Australia is critical to health workforce planning given increasing demand.
authors.affiliation: Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Joel
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2016-311X
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Negin
authors.affiliation: Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Jenna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Coffman
authors.affiliation: School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Connell
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Short
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D019352:Censuses; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000639:trends*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000639:trends*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000639:trends*; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000639:trends*; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: aged care; aged care workers; brain drain; migration