Corporate, Small Business & Non-Profit Organizations Employee Assistance Programs in Elder Care Services
Benefits for Employees Provided by Our Geriatric Care Managers
- A user friendly service that promotes comfort and reassurance and immediate access via our E-mail or telephone
- Problem solving services face to face through our affiliate geriatric care specialists close to the work site or home; these professionals offer the employee and their dependents a prompt response with the utmost privacy and comfort
- The employee will receive for their elder loved one (spouse or parents):
- Comprehensive telephone consultation
- A written care plan assessment that identifies problems, eligibility for assistance and need for services
- Consumer information on eldercare issues
- Our geriatric care management team is dedicated to developing elder healthcare programs and services so that personnel problems don't become personal problems
- Partnership with the employee and employer to solve problems in elder care that can disrupt family and job performance
Benefits for Employers Provided by Our Geriatric Care Managers
- Customized to fit the unique nature of your individual firm; however the goal is the same no matter what the business: To resolve personal or family elder care concerns that could potentially impair job performance and lead to increased use of medical benefits and lost productivity
- Education of supervisors, managers, and employees respectively about the myriad of challenges common to the aging process
- Operates a barrier free, use friendly service that promotes comfort and reassurance with access via our e-mail
- Provide the necessary problem solving services face to face through affiliates close to the work site or home. Offer your employees and their dependents a prompt response with the utmost privacy and comfort
Why an Employer Needs an Elder Care Assistance Program
Assisting parents is not a one-time event. Instead, it's a series of events that require the time and attention of employees to locate the information they need to help. Examples of issues include: in-home assistance (examples: meal preparation, housekeeping, laundry, medication management); assistance with daily living skills (examples: bathing, dressing, toileting).
Through your human resource department, employee assistance program, Elder Care can put this information right at their fingertips, help them prepare for issues like this and provide long term care planning.
Did You Know?
- Did you, the employer know an estimated one in three employees will have elder care responsibilities?
- Did you, the employer know on average that caregivers lose nine days of productivity per year due to absenteeism, late arrival, early departure and excessive telephone conversation?
- Did you, the employer know that caregivers are three times more likely to suffer depression than their colleagues?
- Eldercare has surpassed child care to become the #1 issue confronting employees. Lost productivity associated with employees using work time to assist parents cost US businesses $34 Billion ($2,100 per caregiving employee)