# How the Healthcare Workforce Is Responding to New Aging Policies | Age-Friendly Health Series

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Podcast: [A Health Podyssey](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-health-podyssey-1366621)
Published: 2026-05-20T04:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Welcome to a new, limited podcast series exploring major policy changes affecting older adults. This episode is part of our Age-Friendly Health series, which explores topics at the intersection of aging, health, health care, and health policy. In our second episode, host Katherine Ornstein welcomes Bianca Frogner, director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Washington to discuss the role of direct care workers in long‑term care, workforce shortages, policy shifts affecting Medicaid, immigration, labor standards, and more. Support for the Age-Friendly Health series is provided by The John A. Hartford Foundation . Related Links Health Care Workforce Pay Gaps: COVID-19 Modestly Compressed Wage Disparities, 2015–24 The AWARD Network PHI

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