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Eldercare disrupts work/life
balance and negatively impacts work performance costing employers
billions of dollars
each year. Employers not addressing eldercare issues will see a marked
decline in their “bottom line” with decreasing return
on investments because of the following negative factors:
- Employees providing elder care to family members sometimes
quit their job because they are overwhelmed by eldercare responsibilities
- Employees use more sick time administering eldercare or because
they are stressed out and fatigued and require time to rebuild themselves
- Employees
use company time to contact doctors, home health care aides, insurance
companies, decreasing job performance and productivity
- Employees cannot
focus on performance creating higher number mistakes, accidents,
workers compensation claims. They are unable to meet
normal deadlines, thereby decreasing productivity while increasing work
related stress on top of their eldercare stress.
DHA Elder Care Help provides the HELP employees need to address these
issues through telephone consultations with professionally trained DHA
staff. Through our own personal experiences we realize that hospitals
and facilities do provide placement services for the elderly, but assessing
their offered alternatives can be extremely stressful for your employees.
DHA can and will assist your employees who are struggling with these
decisions and the overwhelming guilt they may be experiencing by:
- providing caregiver support, balancing work and eldercare
giving responsibilities
- developing stress reduction strategies and avoiding
burn out
- explaining how to conduct family meetings developing treatment
plans
- explaining how to share care giving responsibilities among family
members
- explaining how to address eldercare safety concerns, home safety,
life line
- providing community caregiver resources with telephone contacts
- identifying types of homes; nursing, assisted living, and geriatric
care
- discussing legal and financial help
- providing local Hospice care
resources
- providing community referral resource providers
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