When employees who provide care for older adults have the support they need, employers benefit in the following ways: employees’ physical and mental health improves; job satisfaction and performance increase; and job retention rates rise. Read Towards an Elder-Care-Friendly Workplace to learn what Melissa Brown, MSW, PhD Adjunct Facult, Graduate School of Social Work, Boston […]
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Demographic trends indicate that a greater number of employees of all ages will assume the role of family caregiver for an increasingly older population. This means that more employees will be dealing with eldercare issues. This report, The MetLife Study of Working Caregivers and Employer Health Care Costs, from the Mature Market Institute (MMI), Metropolitan Life […]
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This document, published online by the US Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) provides best practices that employers may adopt to reduce the chance of EEO violations against caregivers, and to remove barriers to equal employment opportunity. The entire document (of approximately 8 pages) is footnoted with the sources for the statements made. In general the EEOC […]
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This MetLife Mature Market Institute study of the Caregiving Cost to Working Caregivers published in June 2011 analyzed data from the National Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to determine the extent to which older adult children provide care to their parents, the roles gender and work play in that caregiving, and the potential cost to […]
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This 2006 study by MetLife estimates the productivity losses to U.S. business of employees who must make workplace accommodations as a result of caregiving responsibilities. These include costs associated with replacing employees, absenteeism, crisis in care, workday interruptions, supervisory time, unpaid leave, and reducing hours from full-time to part time.
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Published in 2004 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services in cooperation with the National Alliance for Caregiving, this publication is designed to serve as a workbook for managers with employees providing eldercare. Most importantly, the workbook provides guidance on basic, no-cost steps companies can take to begin to incorporate eldercare sensitive policies, including […]
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A toolkit for members from the National Business Group on Health was created to give benefit professionals and senior executives a broad overview of the multifaceted challenges both employees and employers are encountering due to changing demographics. Baby boomers are staying in the workforce for longer periods due to rising health costs and economic uncertainty. […]
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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.
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This 2008 comprehensive study funded by the Alfred Sloan foundation and produced by the Families and Work Institute surveyed 1,100 US employers with 50 or more employees about their caregiver related practices, policies, programs and benefits. It is a ten year follow-up to an initial study conducted in 1998. Beginning on page 23 are responses […]
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Produced by faculty of Portland State University in 2001, this source book is a resource for employers of any size organization, seeking a framework for developing their own programs in support of dual-earning couples providing care for both children and aging parents. After reviewing the growing trend of dual care giving roles taken on by […]
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