One positive thing that has come out of the pandemic is the fact that businesses have become more innovative and have found new ways of keeping their employees working, while promoting employee wellness and serving their communities.
The pandemic brought on significant economic injury and some businesses will need many years to recover if they stay operational. One thing that has affected many businesses even before the pandemic was the issue of family caregiving. With the pandemic, a newer kind of challenge emerged; the challenge of sudden, unplanned, and accidental caregiving for many employees who lost the family’s primary caregiver to covid-19.
The new challenge has compounded the already existing impact of caregiving to US businesses. According to the AARP public policy, there over forty million unpaid family caregivers in the USA and over sixty percent of them are in the work force. 68% of these family caregivers experience at least one change in employment due to the caregiving needs of a senior loved one, 64% arrive late or leave early causing loss productivity, 10% give up work entirely and most have been diagnosed with a chronic illness associated with the stress of family caregiving. To balance organizational needs and the human needs of the employees, family friendly employers have turned to employee elder care assistance programs.
The 4 amazing goals of an Employee Elder Care Assistance Program
An employee elder care assistance program is a service that helps businesses care for their employees who are family caregivers.
An employee elder care assistance program offers virtual caregiver education programs, access to caregiving services, information about where to find money to pay for caregiving, backup care when employees need caregiving and have to be on duty for important work matters that can’t wait, online mini courses on long term care planning, live consultations, counseling, self-care classes and work life balance programs.
The goal of an employee elder care assistance program is four pronged:
#1. To promote long term care planning as a strategy to reduce stress, lower the incidence of chronic illness associated with family caregiving and to promote work life balance.
#2. To reduce absenteeism
#3. To enhance productivity
#4. To reduce business cost associated with recruitment, retention, and training.
For a free consultation of how to begin a no cost employee elder care assistance program or for more information on how an employee elder care assistance program can become an affordable benefit for your family friendly organization, please email to Stella@StellaNsong,com or call 833-603-0022 or visit www.CaregierReliefnetwork.com/employers.
