Soar to Success June 15 2020

Over the last twodecades incorporateAmerica, there has been a growing discussion about the impact of family caregiving on employee health, absenteeism, productivity, and work life balance. Although most of America is now closer to the elder care cliff because the population is older, as a country, we are less prepared than we were ten years ago. So where and how do we begin to fix this challenge? A great starting point is at the workplace. Why? Because 76% of the American work force is involved or impacted by family caregiving. It is now 2020, will your company survive the ELDER CARE CLIFF? By Stella Nsong, , RN, CMC, CDP, LTCP How? The answer is simpler than it looks. We can begin to fix the challenge of family caregiving in corporate America through an employee elder care assistance program. Not a program that offers a working daughter and family caregiver a list of community resources that she cannot use after work hours for the pressing problems at hand. A list will not help when she needs to call off from work because her grandmother is ill and there is no available, dependable and affordable caregiving service. That list becomes less useful the next day because she will use work hours to find resources while her problems get worse. In the meantime, her productivity is dropping, her anxiety is