These demands require an educated, highly trained, competent workforce across all settings where people receive care—the hospital, a physician’s office or clinic, a nursing home, assisted living (or other residential care setting), and private homes and apartments. The workforce ranges from the direct-care workers who provide hands-on care to a financially, racially, and ethnically diverse population, to the variety of clinicians who address the complex health and long-term-care needs of this population, to the managers and administrators who oversee the systems that deliver care.