

How to Expand your EAP and Benefits Program to Reduce Work and Caregiving Conflicts
A FREE Webinar on Tuesday, December 21, at 4pm ET
As year-end approaches, many HR and EAP professionals are looking toward 2022 wondering how to manage the “Great Resignation”, ongoing mental health issues, and absenteeism.
While making an impact for the 40% of employees with care challenges won’t solve every problem in your organization, it can make a difference for many.
To help companies like yours, the presentation offers some options for solutions you can implement immediately.
Register NowAlmost a decade ago, Jeannette Galvanek foresaw the current workforce crisis. She had no way to know there would be a pandemic, but COVID didn’t cause the crisis. While many in the care industry are still working to help caregivers “take more bubble baths to reduce stress,” CareWise Solutions focuses on the core causes of the workforce crisis.
The American caregiving system is simply unsustainable. It’s bad now, but it will worsen over the next three decades (Yes! Decades!) if we do not build an innovative infrastructure to support a new way for employees to work and care more naturally.
In this section of the CareWise Solutions website, you’ll find thought articles covering a wide range of modern workforce and employment issues. As organizations try to move into the future with industrial age thinking, workers have moved on. The employment “deal” has shifted permanently, and labor is now a “sellers’ market.”
The CareWise Solutions Blog takes a deep dive into the issues facing organizations, our nation, and the world over the next thirty years. Baby Boomers are aging, and the domino effect is the same as it was when they were born. There were not enough schools to educate them, so the government built more schools. There were not enough hospitals to care for them, so the country built more medical facilities and trained more doctors. Now, as they require care to age-in-place, there is no infrastructure, no workforce, and no healthcare system designed for their needs. So, family members step in to fill the void, placing their own careers, health, and other family relationships at risk.
CareWise Solutions is open to partnering with like-minded organizations. We are open to publishing your articles here on our website’s blog. We are also willing to consider writing unique guest articles for your site or having you repost the articles we have already posted here. Please CONTACT US.
The caregiving costs are no mystery. Annual costs of unpaid caregiving in the US total $67 billion. Yes, billion. And the costs are increasing every year.
About 30% of American employees are juggling a job and family caregiving responsibilities, but their employers do almost nothing to support them.
About thirty percent of the American workforce currently has some caregiving responsibilities.
Work-life balance is one thing. Employee-caregiver balance takes it to a whole new level. Always feeling like you don’t give enough to your aging parent, and pulling up short at work, too.
Working and caregiving can be overwhelming tasks separately, but when done together, they can put a lot of stress on you, the person filling both roles.
I am a decision-maker for in-home and community-based caregiving services.
I am a working family caregiver.
I am responsible for healthcare-to-home transitions.
I manage a professional care workforce in a skilled care facility or healthcare organization.
My organization needs help to resolve the work/caregiving crisis.
My responsibility is to purchase employee benefit packages.