ALZConnected for caregivers

A new social networking community for people living with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers, ALZConnected, has been launched by the Alzheimer’s Association. After joining the online community at no cost, members can connect with others to discuss their challenges, pose and answer questions about dementia-related issues, create groups about specific topics and contribute to message boards.

Can caring for an ailing loved one kill you?

Life (Part 2) begins with a clip from The Forgetting, the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary on Alzheimer’s disease. Then PBS host, Robert Lipsyte, an Emmy winner and former New York Times columnist, turns to his panelists for a discussion among panelists that have either cared for a loved one, or conducted research on the experiences […]

Best Practices from the Caregiver Connection

The United Way in Waukesha County in Wisconsin brought together a group of community leaders for discussions related to caregiving and from that the Caregiver Connection was formed to focus on employed caregivers, which many see as one of the most important human resource issues facing the business community today. This report, Caregivers in the […]

Employer’s Resource Library

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 […]

Employed Caregiver Survey

To address the growing needs of employees who also have family caregiving responsibilities (providing care for a family member or friend with an illness or disability), the UW—Madison Division of Extension offers an Employed Caregiver Survey. This anonymous, no-cost, web-based survey helps employers and their employees understand the scope and needs of employed caregivers as […]

Elder Care: caregivers, flexible work schedules

According to the 2009 National Alliance for Caregiving survey, Caregiving in the US: A Focused Look at Those Caring for Someone Age 50 or Older, “among people who have been employed while caregiving, most have had to make a work place accommodation due to caregiving (68%). The most common work place accommodation is going in […]

Employment Support for Family Caregivers in the United Kingdom

From a study in the United Kingdom: one of the key elements that facilitated the ability to work and care was work related flexibility. This took a number of different forms: part-time work, flextime, shift working or term-time working. However, this formal flexibility was not necessarily sufficient. It often needed to be reinforced by ‘informal’ […]

Workplace Flexibility Demanded

Workplace Flexibility 2010 report provides a useful framework to employers, employees, and unions who are thinking about how to provide greater flexibility to low-wage hourly workers, and advocates and policymakers who want to better understand the contours of this issue and policy solutions, and for all who are working to make flexibility a regular feature […]

Caregiving 101: Exploring the Complexities of Family Caregiving

Hosted by the National Alliance for Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance, this PowerPoint and webinar from December, 2010, provide useful information regarding what it means to be a caregiver, what daily activities look like and how caregiving affects the health of the caregiver. It uses data from the 2009 Caregiving in the US survey. Please […]

Preventing Discrimination Against Employees with Family Responsibilities

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 […]