Caregiving Costs to Working Caregivers

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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2006 MetLife Caregiving Cost Study

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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Cultural Diversity Issues

This article by Kathy Quan provides a concise summary of the findings regarding differences in elder care among different populations from an AARP study entitled, “In the Middle: A Report of Multicultural Boomers Coping with Family and Aging Issues.” The report provides some interesting information about the extended non-nuclear family as well as the traditional family […]

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When Employees Become Caregivers: A Manager’s Workbook

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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What Employers Need to Know – Impact of Advanced Illness on the Workplace

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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Understanding and Meeting the Needs of LGBT Elders

Making sure that LGBT elders have healthy, secure, and rewarding lives requires reaching out to the mainstream aging community.  At the event, “Understanding and Meeting the Needs of LGBT Elders,” sponsored by Center for American Progress Action Fund in 2010, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin discussed the need to address lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender inequality and […]

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Firms Help Workers Provide End-Of-Life Care

Pitney Bowes is among several companies now reaching out to employees who are caring for a loved one with a terminal illness. It’s offering employee support — like financial and legal resources, counseling on hospice and palliative care, and flexible working arrangements.  Dr. Brent Pawlecki, the company’s medical director, shares with NPR that this is one […]

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Black Adults Provide Greater Support to Elders

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 […]

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Employer Cost Calculator

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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