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Published on October 23, 2011August 6, 2012 by Libby Bestul

The 2006 MetLife study on the cost of caregiving employees to their employers, The Caregiving Cost Study, estimated that business costs of caregiving employees may be as high as $33.6 billion nationally a year.

This tool serves  allows individual employers to calculate their own costs.

Categorized: Benefits to Employers, Impacts of Caregiving on Work Performance

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This New York Times article from 1998 profiles one man caring for his elderly mother and explores the culturally specific commitment to family-provided elder care, as well as discussing probably historical roots.

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A cross sectional survey of 600 middle-aged black and white adults with both children and aging parents found that although both races felt obliged to help their parents, black adults tended to provide greater support to their elders.  The study published in 2010 in The Gerontologist concludes that the reported sense of obligation to parents is what explained the difference.

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