For Employers

Is your company losing valuable time and productivity because your employees are stressed over their caregiving responsibilities?
If so, Senior Helpers can help reduce your employee absenteeism saving your company thousands of hours in lost time and productivity! The way we do this is by offering a helping hand to your employees who are forced to take time away from work to care for elderly parents and loved ones.

Did you know that the primary family caregiver (generally, the middle aged eldest daughter who may work for you) spends an average of almost 20 hours per week caring for an elderly parent? While your employees may not take that much time off to help Mom and Dad, they essentially have another job at night and on the weekends and eventually, the exhaustion will manifest itself in fatigue, potential moral problems, and lost productivity at work!

About Caregiving And The Workplace
As America's elderly population increases at an exponential rate, the demand for caregivers has never been greater, often at the expense of work, family and relationships. Today, the nation's caregiving population is estimated at 25 million – two thirds of the working population!

According to a recent survey conducted by MarketFacts¹, more than 40 percent of American households have previously or do currently provide care for a loved one, with a projected escalation to nearly 50 percent in the next 5 years. Employee's eldercare duties, according to analysts, is causing an estimated $29 billion dollars in lost productivity each year.

Of caregivers who work full time:

• 80 percent of working caregivers reported emotional strain
• 40 percent missed work on a regular basis due to the health needs of an elderly loved one
• 50 percent reported financial strain
• 54 percent said they were unprepared for schedule juggling
• 49 percent were unprepared for the amount of time caregiving takes
• 42 percent were unprepared for balancing work and caregiving responsibilities

How We Can Help
Addressing caregiver issues is on the forefront of employers' agendas, many of whom are focusing their employee assistance efforts on eldercare programs. We can help you by helping your employees cope with the daily grind of caregiving for a loved one. Our experienced and caring caregivers will help your employees keep Mom and Dad at home by helping with the chores, shopping, meal preparation and transportation to appointments, etc. Your employees will not only feel less stress and be more enthusiastic about work, but will be able to enjoy, once again, being the child to the parent they once were. The result is improved productivity on the job!

Some benefits of working with us:

• Increased employee productivity & morale
• Decreased employee absenteeism
• Ability to add a great employee benefit to your package
• Ease of use - we handle all of the scheduling and can coordinate directly with your employees

Contact us today to discover how we can add this important employee benefit to your existing package. We can customize a solution based on your company's particular needs!

¹MarketFacts/Comfort Bath Survey, 2000 & American Association of Retired Persons, 1997

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