Facing Up to the Demographic Dilemma
This is a thought provoking article on the challenges and opportunities aging populations present to businesses. Under Article Tools you can click the PDF button for a reprint rather than page through multiple web pages. It still fascinates me to watch businesses in the US shed competent people of all ages while ignoring future workforce and critical skills needs.
The Aging Brain Is Less Quick, But More Shrewd : NPR
Source: Nature Neuroscience 2003 Credit: Elizabeth Sowell
The Teen Brain: It’s Just Not Grown Up Yet : NPR
People are often unreasonable and self centered
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind people may accuse you of ulterior motives
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest people may cheat you
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness people may be jealous
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough
Do your best anyway.
For you see in the end it was between you and God
It was never between you and them anyway.
– Mother Theresa
After reading this article I remain in a state of disbelief.
F.D.A. Says Millions Got Unapproved Nitroglycerin – NYTimes.com
The problem of the unapproved tablets stems from a longstanding ambiguity about the rules for drugs whose use predates the establishment of the F.D.A. in 1938. Only one brand of nitroglycerin pills is federally approved: Nitrostat, made by Pfizer, on the market since 2000.
Compared with the general population, the relative risk of all-cause mortality in patients with clinically minimal hyperparathyroidism was 2.62 (95% CI 2.39 to 2.86) in a population-based study, according to Graham Leese, MD, of the University of Dundee in Scotland.
More than 40% of people with undiagnosed diabetes had chronic kidney disease, based on albuminuria or reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) — just as many as in those with diagnosed diabetes, according to Laura C. Plantinga, ScM, of San Francisco General Hospital and University of California San Francisco, and colleagues.
Notably, 56.2% of chronic kidney disease was stage 3 or 4 among those with prediabetes, indicated by a fasting plasma glucose between 100 and 126 mg/dl, and for whom kidney dysfunction was likely unsuspected.
February 2010 Bridging Skills Gap – Free – ASTD
Click on the link above and you’ll be taken to the original source article for the statistics provided below. The charts themselves came from a newsletter called Workforce Training. The percentages in bold are my emphasis. Scary statistics but fixable.
Did I mention we conduct skills gap analysis and custom training to address the gaps?
| SKILL GAPS Seventy-nine percent of 1,179 companies surveyed by the American Society for Training & Development said they had a skill gap. The respondents listed their highest priority gaps as: |
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