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.
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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 […]
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.
As you can probably guess, the answer is no. It’s true that some initiatives are delivering minor improvements
We’ve already talked about the growing pressure on employee caregivers and others and that post provides some very useful context for the questions we’re going to answer here. It’s important that we look at some of the more structural issues and problems with employees being primary caregivers, and what needs to change.
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.
