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With an aging population, there is a greater demand for geriatric, palliative, and hospice care. The need for more chronic disease management is also encouraging a shift to preventative care and self-accountability for health behaviors that lead to chronic disease.

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"I'm going to add a philosophical statement. A big part of this is people taking more responsibility for their own health status. There is an appetite out there, and it will not end. People have to take more responsibility for keeping themselves healthy and, well, we are partnering to help achieve that. But absent that, it would just crash everything. And so that piece doesn't specifically fit into the workforce, but it shouldn't be lost. This isn't just about trying to grow more and more jobs and things like that. I mean people are just not happy. You just look at certain kinds of health status issues in our community, and some of these issues are quite significant.

Question: So the importance of the business community stepping up as they have been but doing it more?

Employer: Helping to make it personal."		 Southeast
"It is an individual responsibility. It's helping to send a message that it's a personal responsibility for people to keep themselves healthy and well throughout their lives. It mitigates a lot of those chronic things and conditions that not only cost a lot, but also impede with a lot of activities in their lives." Southeast