Employee Caregiving Solutions

How to Make Your Workplace More Caregiver Friendly

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Already over 40% of employees care for aging relatives. With 10,000 Americans having their 65th birthday every day, soon, most workers will have caring responsibilities. The workforce is destabilized as employees volunteering to care for family take on more and more tasks. What starts out as just a few hours a week ends up lasting […]

Do You Consider Yourself a Caregiver?

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You spend time helping a loved one every week – because you care about them and they need help. Simple as that. You take them to the doctor, pick up their prescriptions, make sure they take their medication, and maybe even perform some wound care. You sort mail and pay bills. And help with the […]

The Growing Pressures of Caregiving on Employees and Business — Your Questions, Answered

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The Newest Talent Magnet Hard-hitting Employee Care And Job Retention Policy How is the labor market changing? The negative impact of family caregiving needs on our employment system is growing. Businesses typically see caregiving as a personal or private matter. It is also a work and workforce threat, especially in a shrinking labor market. The [...]

The Growing Pressures of Caregiving on Employees and Business

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Is Caregiving Really Dual Employment There are many implications for a “dual-employed workforce”. Increasing needs in elder care, combined with inadequate support from the government, insurers, and healthcare providers are all leading to an unstable caregiving infrastructure that impacts individuals and businesses. The good news is that we know this is a problem. We can […]

What role has the healthcare, insurance, government and caregiving provider industry played?

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Unfortunately, informal, and home caregiving provision hasn’t received the investment and attention in the newest technology platforms in m-health, healthcare disruption, smart home, and other forward-looking efforts. Infrastructure and resource reallocation addressing non-medical care, local nursing and/ or home caregiving labor markets continue between the working family and formal care organizations. Without these joint efforts, increasingly, more and more healthcare and medical roles are falling to unpaid family members.

The Changing Workforce and the Need to Support Employee Carers

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Your Business Success depends on having an engaged, motivated, and diverse workforce with access to technology that supports communications, productivity, and location-independence. That’s why we’re seeing such a strong drive towards the mobile enterprise, as employees move away from office-bound roles to work from anywhere. However this desire for remote and virtual working isn’t just […]

Let’s Invest! Employees need caregiving solutions.

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The Job Is “Caregiving”. Common Pseudonyms: informal care, family care, personal care, home care, elder care. The US and other countries are facing a socio-economic crisis that is only now slowly coming into focus. It involves an estimated 43.5 million people who have “caregiver” responsibilities, most already have a paid job. Today’s numbers will explode […]

Employees’ Home Care Burdens Are Your Economic Threat

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How Your Business Can Use Technology to Address Employees’ Home Care Commitments “Every day in the US, 10,000 baby boomers turn 65.” — University of Pittsburgh There’s a ticking time bomb in the labour force, and it’s something your business must grapple with. If you don’t, you could lose some of your best employees, see […]

Digital Work-Life And Caregiving Solutions Are A Gold Rush!

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What could a connected, digital future look like for all of us who are facing family caregiving and retaining our current paid jobs? What would the future hold if we addressed working people who are currently experiencing reduced productivity, pay and financial losses? AARP found that they are racking up out-of-pocket expenses to the tune […]

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