![]() ![]() Although these two papers were directed toward North American reality, the message for physical therapists has been universal: (1) Older adults will comprise the largest percentage of PT clients across most practice settings, and (2) physical therapists who specialize in geriatrics are far too few to meet older adults’ needs. In 2014, a physical therapy (PT) version of this “re-tooling wave” was published in the article “Building the Physical Therapy Workforce for an Aging America”. The message of the report spread to other countries and to specific professional groups which have used the report’s content to advocate shared responsibility among professionals to facilitate optimal aging. The concept of “Retooling the Health Care Workforce for Aging Populations” was introduced in 2008 in a report from the Institute of Medicine in the USA. ![]() The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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