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1. Employees and Employers
Benefit from Eldercare Support
Learn About This Leading National Eldercare Assistance Program

2. The Keys to Successful Eldercare Assistance
This Is Our Mission at
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3. How We Help Employees
Who Are Caring for an Elderly Loved One
We educate caregivers so they
understand all their options.
We coordinate the search for
appropriate services in their area.
We facilitate connections to
needed services at discount prices.
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4. How We Help Employers
Who Face Increased Costs Due to Eldercare Stress
We educate employers about
caregiver stress in the workplace.
We coordinate a comprehensive
eldercare assistance program.
We facilitate resolution of eldercare
issues to relieve caregiver stress.
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5. Do You and Your Employees Need Eldercare Support?
YES, if your employees are missing work, Aging with Grace is the leading national
arriving late or leaving early due to eldercare assistance program that works
eldercare responsibilities. with employers, employees and employee
benefits consultants to address eldercare
YES, if your business is incurring expense
stress in the workplace.
and disruption to find substitutes for
absent caregivers
YES, if employees have less energy,
creativity and productivity as a result
of caregiving
YES, if caregiving makes some employees
unavailable for assignments that
would benefit your business.
Aging with Grace has provided eldercare
services to tens of thousands of individuals
and families in the last six years.
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6. Why Do Eldercare Issues Cause Stress for Employees?
• Eldercare issues appear suddenly after an
accident or illness.
• Families have to make quick decisions for
which they have little or no preparation
or education.
• Families often lack the expertise to assess
an elderly person’s needs or ability to live
safely at home.
• Families have little knowledge of
community and government resources.
• Families have no idea where to turn for
assistance to make sense of their
eldercare options.
• Most eldercare givers juggle caregiving
with full-time jobs, as well as parenting.
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7. Why Do Employers Need to Address Eldercare Stress?
• Caregiving costs U.S. employers $33.6 • Adult caregivers younger than 30 are
billion in lost productivity each year. * more than 61 percent more likely than
non-caregivers to have high blood
• The percentage of adult children taking
pressure or recurring neck or back pain.
care of their parents has tripled since
***
1994. **
• Caregivers in all age groups are more
• Approximately 9.7 million adult children
likely than non-caregivers to report that
over the age of 50 care for their parents.
they do not feel well-rested at work after
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performing caregiving at home the
• Americans who work a full time job and previous night or day. ***
care for an elderly or disabled family
member suffer from poorer physical
health than those who work full time but * Source: National Council on Aging
do not have caregiving responsibilities. ** Source: University of Michigan and U.S.
*** Health & Retirement Study
• Caregivers employed full time across all *** Source: Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
age groups are substantially more likely
to experience physical health issues than
non-caregiving counterparts. ***
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8. How Does Caregiver Stress Affect Employees?
Signs of caregiver stress include:
• Reduced energy and productivity • Feelings of being overwhelmed
• Ongoing emotional strain • Depression, especially for caregivers of
dementia patients
• Withdrawal
• Feelings that caregiving is a second job
• Sleeplessness or sleeping difficulty
with no relief or breaks
• Lack of concentration
• Weight loss or gain
• Drug or alcohol abuse
• Eating disorders
• Mood swings
• Chronic fatigue
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9. How Does Caregiver Stress Affect Employers?
Signs of caregiver stress include:
• Lack of productivity
• Increased absenteeism
• Late arrivals and early departures by
employees
• Workday interruptions
• Lack of concentration by employees
• Increased use of sick days or unpaid
time off
• Requests to shift from full-time to part-
time
• Reluctance of employees to take on new
responsibilities or a promotion
• Employees quitting their jobs
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10. Economic Impact on Employees Is Great
• 66 percent of working caregivers say they • Caregivers who are 50 or older average a
have had to go in late, leave early or take $303,880 financial loss per person in lost
time off to perform caregiving. * wages, pensions and Social Security
benefits over a lifetime. **
• Nearly 40 percent of working caregivers
report that caregiving affects their ability * Source: National Alliance for Caregiving 2009
to advance on the job.** ** Source: MetLife Mature Market Institute &
New York Medical College’s Center for Long-
• 29 percent say they passed up a
Term-Care Research and Policy
promotion due to caregiving
commitments.**
• 20 percent say they have had to take a
leave of absence to perform caregiving
duties. *
• 12 percent say they have had to give up
working entirely to perform caregiving. *
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11. Economic Impact on Employers Is Far-Reaching
• The growth of eldercare responsibilities • 52 percent of women (2,187,282) and 34
among adult children is having negative percent of men (953,431) have
impact on businesses in all fields. experienced workday interruptions as a
result of caregiving. ***
• 68 percent of family caregivers caring for
someone over the age of 50 are also • 25 percent of employees responsible for
working outside the home. * the care of relatives who live more than
an hour away miss at least one day of
• Caregiving costs U.S. employers $33.6
work per month. *
billion in lost productivity each year. *
• Caregiver responsibilities make some
• Replacing workers who are absent for
employees unavailable for assignments or
caregiving costs businesses $6.6 billion a
promotions that would benefit a
year. *
business.
• 70 percent of caregiving workers report it * Source: National Council on Aging
has had some adverse effect on their
work. ** ** Source: National Alliance for Caregiving 2009
*** Source: MetLife Mature Market Institute &
National Alliance for Caregiving, 2006.
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12. Aging with Grace Offers a Comprehensive Package
More and more employers are • The eldercare experts provide clear
finding that by taking care of answers to the complex questions and
employees’ needs they are taking challenges of eldercare.
care of their business.
• The Aging with Grace website provides
• Increased caregiving responsibilities quick access to information and advice at
among working men and women have led any hour of the day.
forward-thinking employers to offer
eldercare services to help employees
manage this work/life issue.
• Aging with Grace offers a comprehensive
eldercare assistance program for working
caregivers that places resources and
support a phone call away.
• The program provides employees
unlimited telephone access to experts in
the eldercare field.
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13. Hands-On, Reliable Assistance by Phone or Online
The Aging with Grace Eldercare • Discounts are available for services and
Assistance Program gives caregivers programs from participating providers
a way to get fast, reliable answers negotiated by Aging with Grace.
from eldercare experts.
• Quality assurance programs guarantee
• Caregivers have telephone access to member satisfaction and provider
experienced eldercare advocates for quality.
assistance with immediate needs and
long-term planning.
• An Online Provider Directory on the
Aging with Grace website provides a
searchable list of trusted providers in
your local area.
• The Online Provider Directory can be
searched by Zip code, mileage limits and
by services offered.
• The directory includes contact
information and a link to each provider’s
website.
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14. Website Is One-Stop, High-Tech Resource
The Aging with Grace website — • The complimentary Aging with Grace
www.agingwithgrace.net — collects “Caregiver Tool Kit” is available as an
vital caregiving information in one easy download.
easy-to-use Internet location.
• A monthly caregiver newsletter provides
• Resource hotlinks connect caregivers to up-to-date information on eldercare
the expertise of eldercare agencies and topics on the website or by email.
organizations ranging from the American
Society on Aging to the National Family
Caregivers Association.
• Hotlinks also connect to caregiver
resources, veterans resources, Medicare
information and financial, legal and
health planning services.
• A Caregiver Support Library for members
offers current and timely articles on
eldercare issues.
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15. How the Aging with Grace Process Works
The Aging with Grace Eldercare
Assistance program provides hands-
on, personal support for caregivers
and their families.
• When a caregiver contacts Aging with
Grace, he/she speaks with an elder
advocate to identify concerns.
• The elder advocate assesses care options
and evaluates financial options.
• The advocate creates an action plan to
address the caregiver’s immediate and
long-term needs.
• The advocate and caregiver review
Medicare or Medicaid eligibility.
• The advocate explores availability of
veterans benefits if the client needing
assistance is a veteran or the spouse of a
veteran.
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16. How Aging with Grace Assists Veterans
Because eldercare is expensive, • The benefit can help pay for such out-of
Aging with Grace helps veterans and pocket medical expenses as adult day
their families identify financial services, home care, family caregivers, in-
resources. home safety equipment, assisted living,
nursing home care, Medicare premiums
• Veterans Benefits Consultants help
or medical co-pays.
veterans or spouses of veterans apply for
health or pension benefits that can help • To help caregivers explore this benefit,
pay for short- or long-term care. Aging with Grace offers a “V.A. Aid &
Attendance Self-Help Guide” as a
• Veterans Benefits Consultants help
download on its website.
determine if clients are eligible for rarely
used Veterans Benefits to help pay for • The website also offers a “self pre-
non-reimbursed monthly medical qualification form” to determine
expenses. eligibility for the Aid & Attendance
Benefit.
• The Non-Service Connected Disability
Pension Benefit, also known as the
"Veterans Aid and Attendance Benefit,"
can provide additional monthly income
up to $1,949 a month.
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17. In-Home Support Technology
The Aging with Grace Eldercare • A free Medication Safety Program that
Assistance program offers a wide helps monitor the safety of medications
range of in-home support
• A CareJournal tool that provides a
technology through its website.
private place to let out feelings, including
Features include:
anger, frustration, grief or joy
• An electronic Personal Health Record
• Direct access to the Aging with Grace
that goes with you wherever you go
CareConnection online caregiver
• An affordable Personal Alert System that community to share with people who are
ensures a person is not alone in an facing the same caregiver challenges
emergency
• A Caregiver R&R section that provides an
• A CareCalendar tool that provides access opportunity to relieve the tensions of a
to an online calendar to help people keep day
important dates such as doctor
appointments, birthdays, anniversaries
and caregiver schedules that can be
shared with family and other people
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18. Group Services Benefit Both Employees and Employers
Aging with Grace is the leading • Group services increase productivity and
national eldercare assistance decrease workday interruptions.
program that works with employers,
• Group services enable employers to do
employees, labor unions and
well by doing good.
employee benefits consultants to
relieve eldercare stress in the
workplace.
• We understand the needs and objectives
of all three groups and the impact of this
rapidly growing problem on the economic
health of industry and businesses today.
• By offering Aging with Grace, an
employer, labor union or organization
can take a proactive approach to
eldercare.
• Group services reduce the effects of
employee health issues related to
caregiver stress.
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19. Caregiver Stress Is Costly: Yearly Economic Impact
Problem Impact
Replacing Employees $6.6 billion
Absenteeism $5.1 billion
Partial Absenteeism $1.9 billion
Workday Interruptions $6.3 billion
Eldercare Crisis $3.8 billion
Supervisor Time $1.8 billion
Unpaid Leave $3.4 billion
Full-Time to Part-Time $4.8 billion
Total: $33.6 billion
Source: National Council on Aging
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20. The Keys to Successful Eldercare
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Call or e-mail Aging with Grace
410-329-6472
info@agingwithgrace.net
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