Caring Strategies Provides Eldercare Benefit - Caring Employers Help with Eldercare Issues

Eldercare takes a financial toll on your company, so it makes good business sense to support your employees who are also family caregivers. Find out what the financial burden is for your company by using the Eldercare Calculator, above.

Useful links:

E-mail us and request our Caring Employer Program information package.

The MetLife Caregiving Cost Study:

Productivity Losses to U.S. Business

Eldercare Costs in the Workplace

Eldercare Calculator

Caring Strategies Offers Employers

Support, Strategies, and Solutions

With our Caring Employer Program (click link for details), your organization and each of your employees receive special eldercare benefits. Support is already in place when your employees need it most. One call gets them the support they need. Learn more about what the Caring Employer Program has to offer.

We make it easy for you to offer this valuable benefit to your employees, and can arrange a benefit to meet your needs.

Call 256-489-7573 and speak with Sheila Collins, CMC for more information, or

e-mail us and request our Caring Employer Program information package.

Welcome, Caring Employer

Caring Strategies recognizes outstanding companies and organizations that have chosen to support their employees/members by participating in the

Caring Employer Program:

The MetLife Study of Caregiving Costs to Working Caregivers (2011) is an updated, national look at adult children who work and care for their parents, and the impact of caregiving on their earnings and lifetime wealth.

CAREGIVING IN THE U.S., Executive Summary (2009) is a comprehensive and enlightening examination of caregiving in America. It is from the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, and was funded by the MetLife Foundation.

Policy Guidance: PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST EMPLOYEES

WITH FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES: A Model Policy For Employers

HR Magazine, a publication of the Society for Human Resource Management, highlighted the importance of treating caregiving employees with care in its November 2009 cover story written by Rita Zeidner. "Legal complaints by workers claiming unequal treatment based on caregiver status, also known as family responsibility discrimination (FRD), increased nearly 400 percent from 1995 to 2005," according to research cited in the article. "While plaintiffs prevail in only about 20 percent of cases alleging race, sex, or other more familiar types of discrimination, the win rate in FRD litigation is twice that." And "54 percent of all FRD judgments are greater than $100,000."