This LifeCare, inc. report is a summary of findings produced in 2008 from an 18-month study conducted by the National Alliance for Caregiving and Center for Productive Aging, Towson University. Their focus was to see what workplace supports might effect employee health and on the job performance over time. The study followed family caregivers at […]
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Family support is critical to remaining in one’s home and in the community, but often comes at substantial costs to caregivers themselves, to their families, and to society. A new study by the AARP estimates that for the more than 40 million Americans caring for an elderly or disabled loved one, the value of their […]
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A recent working paper from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College uses data from nine waves of the Health and Retirement Survey. The authors find that serving as a caregiver to elderly parents reduces a married man’s chance of working by 3.2 percentage points. However, serving as a caregiver did not affect the […]
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As more Americans care for elderly relatives, companies are increasingly helping employees by adding workplace benefits similar to those that have been offered for child dependents. This article, written by By M.P. McQueen, of the Wall Street Journal and published online by the post-gazette.com in 2006 highlights that family care assistance and wellness programs are […]
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According to a survey by Society for Human Resources Management, for CBS News, only about one in four companies offers any elder care benefits. Corporations that once were pressured to provide better child care are now going to have to provide better elder care. Watch the CBS video from February 2007 to see how Freddie […]
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The National Caregivers Library was created by FamilyCare America, Inc. and is one of the largest single sources of information and tools for caregivers and seniors in the country. The library consists of hundreds of useful articles, forms, checklists and links to topic-specific external resources and the library includes an entire section for employers. It […]
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Best practices for avoiding family responsibilities discrimination and retaining talented employees with caregiving responsibilities can be found on The Center for WorkLife Law (WLL) website as well as employer alerts that identify trends in Family Responsibilities Discrimination. The Center for WorkLife Law (WLL) is a nonprofit research and advocacy group devoted to improving work/life balance […]
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The precise prevalence of persons involved in both family caregiving and work roles is not known (see the side-by-side comparison of family caregiving prevalence studies provided by National Family Caregiving Alliance). Nevertheless, the following findings from a 2009 national caregiver survey (National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, 2009), underscore the fact that balancing eldercare and […]
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Most persons do not abandon their caregiving responsibilities because of work or volunteer involvement (Spillman & Black, 2005). Instead, they cope as best they can to balance what are often conflicting sets of responsibilities (Pavalko & Artis, 1997; Spiess & Schneider, 2002). However, as family caregiving demands increase, there is a greater probability of adverse […]
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