Long Term Care Mental Health Retirement 
Minority Nurse
JUNE 19, 2025
Burnout, rising turnover rates, and a wave of retirements have created a perfect storm. This shortage is already being felt in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities nationwide, resulting in longer wait times, increased workloads, and a higher risk of errors in patient care.
University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
million Americans reached the retirement milestone of 65, the most significant surge in U.S. 2 As the demand for healthcare increases, so does the need for nurses and other healthcare practitioners trained to care for an aging population a specialty known as geriatrics. In the United States, individuals over 65+ represented 17.3%
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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Longer lifespans extend the period when patients need care, intensifying demands on an already strained healthcare system and worsening the nursing shortage. In 2022, the median age of employed registered nurses was 46 years old, and more than 25% of all RNs say they will retire or leave the nursing field within the next five years.
Life of a Nurse
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
According to RNAO (2021) 1/3 of nurses 50+ years are considering retirement within 2-5 years. The physicians have a significant pattern of retiring, leaving practices, and not entering family medicine. Four main contributors to the nursing shortage summary: Retiring nurses or those choosing to leave the profession.
Minority Nurse
JULY 5, 2023
Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. She’ll graduate with her doctorate in nursing practice as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in December 2023.
Registered Nursing
DECEMBER 19, 2023
In many parts of the world, the baby boomer generation is reaching retirement age. Older adults often have more complex healthcare needs, making the demand for skilled nursing care, both in hospitals and long-term care facilities, essential.
American Nurse
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Over 171,000 LPNs work in long-term care facilities, which is ranked as the number one field of nursing that LPNs are offered employment. Additional areas of nursing that LPNs work in are home health, retirement/assisted living facilities, psychiatric/mental health, substance abuse, and outpatient/ambulatory clinics.
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