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Employed caregivers are the new workforce majority. Currently, 80% of caregivers are employed. Over the next 30 years, every American will be touched by caregiving responsibilities. This educational guide builds awareness to help employed caregivers keep their jobs, and their companies retain their dwindling workforce. No one should have to choose between loving a family member and making a living.

Family structures and employment conditions have evolved. The traditional approach where a family member (usually a woman) managed household responsibilities no longer applies. In most families, there is nobody home to care for children or aging relatives. Men and women employee-caregivers find work and care conflict to result in an even lower quality of life and care. This cycle is exaggerated for people of color and underserved communities.

We are currently stuck in the Second Wave of Care. CareWise Solutions Inc. prioritizes providing the vision and associated solutions for a Third Wave evolution. We believe that addressing the employment caregiving crisis as separate from but intersecting with the Healthcare crisis is paramount.
This eBook is an in-depth analysis that follows these issues and associated challenges and explains them as three waves of chronic, evolutionary caregiving change.

We call it Healthcare Lite. They call it family or informal caregiving. We call them dual employees. They call them heroes of healthcare.

We see business revenues down, with estimates suggesting companies are losing up to 8% of annual revenues because of care relates wastes. They are just starting to talk about the impact on business, but we’ve been watching the trend for years. Caregiving doesn’t fit into billable hours for a medical practitioner’s revenue stream, so it doesn’t seem to count.

Over 70 million untrained and unmanaged caregivers are doing unpaid work in America that is simply considered a private family matter. The labor market is shrinking as employee-caregivers are being borrowed for an average of 5 years each.

10,000 Americans have their 65th birthday every day. Our society is aging, rapidly. Plus, the rate of change in technology is astounding. Exactly how technology can support employment in our aging society has yet to be seen.

There’s a ticking time bomb in the labor force, and it’s something your business must grapple with. If you don’t, you will lose up to 40% of your workforce, see higher absentee costs, and find it difficult to attract new workers. Chances are, you have already seen some of these problems.

The pandemic and the work ethic of younger generations may contribute in some situations, but these are not the root of the issue.

Employees burdened with caregiving responsibilities are stressed out, and not able to work to capacity without specific supports. While much of the care industry suggests family caregivers be provided with more time off and employers accept lower profits, Jeannette Galvanek has real results for employers to use technology to make a difference.

If your organization is struggling to stabilize your workforce, and you think technology may be part of the solution, this short thought piece, Technology Fortifies Employment in an Aging Society, may provide you with some answers.

This report aims to improve business and institutional understanding of how the healthcare industry’s assumptions that employees should be providing care to aging and infirm family and friends is an outdated ideology.

This report is the foundational topic that business leaders must understand and address to sustain a viable workforce in a shrinking labor market where employees are continuously disrupted by caregiving instead of their caring and loving family role.

These top CareWise recommendations come from Jeannette Galvanek, CEO of CareWise Solutions, the premier source of information for favorable Employment in an Aging Society, a national challenge. The CareWise Solutions business and care experiences offer rich solutions helping leaders and employees everywhere address the challenges of living, working, and caring in an age-intensive society.

CareWise Solutions aspires to create a new normal for caregivers’ lives, work and careтАФa better experience with aligned institutional policy and abilities for Employment in an Aging Society.

HR professionals across the nation face the Caregiver-Crisis in their organizations daily. Extended leaves-of-absence, absenteeism, presenteeism and unproductive workers impact the bottom-line. Estimates suggest that corporations lose over 5% of revenue to caregiving-related issues.

Still, most current solutions force the responsibility onto the caregivers themselves. They are told to “manage their self-care” better and learn to “meditate to destress.” The healthcare industry is shifting more and more responsibility to family caregivers. Statistics show that once a family member spends more than 10 hours per week caregiving, most of that additional time is spent in medical support.

HR departments have had enough. HR Professionals are stepping forward to refuse to accept these ineffective, personal-style suggestions. Organizations demand real results-oriented business solutions.

CareWise Solutions offers solutions for HR Professionals to support their organizations through the Employee-Caregiver transition.

The HR Professionals CareWise Solutions Program Materials includes a wide range of customizable workshop outlines and educational resources.

Jeannette Galvanek, as a previous Fortune 50 HR professional, knows exactly what companies need to face major workforce transitions. The HR Professionals CareWise Solutions Program Materials gives HR professionals access to these “train-the-trainer” style resources.

HR professionals across the nation face the Caregiver-Crisis in their organizations daily. Extended leaves-of-absence, absenteeism, presenteeism and unproductive workers impact the bottom-line. Estimates suggest that corporations lose over 5% of revenue to caregiving-related issues.

Still, most current solutions force the responsibility onto the caregivers themselves. They are told to “manage their self-care” better and learn to “meditate to destress.” The healthcare industry is shifting more and more responsibility to family caregivers. Statistics show that once a family member spends more than 10 hours per week caregiving, most of that additional time is spent in medical support.

CareWise Solutions offers solutions for HR Professionals to support their organizations through the Employee-Caregiver transition.

The HR Professionals CareWise Solutions Program FACILITATOR GUIDE offers explanations for how to present the workshops in the program, online or in person.

CareWise Solutions also trains HR professionals (and team leaders) to facilitate programs that support employee-caregivers on the job.

Implementing change in an organization is one of the key responsibilities of most managers, and most have experienced a change process in some form as organizations restructure! When it comes to evolving CareWise organization, the change process is not about traditional restructuring it is about cultural, attitudinal, policy and process change.

It’s personal for individuals and groups within the organization. For organizations and employee-caregivers, the rewards are exceptional engaged and positive employees, productivity improvements, reduced employee turnover and retention of valued employeesтАж plus other triple bottom line impacts.

HR departments are stepping forward to implement strategies for real change, as their organizations demand real results-oriented business solutions.

CareWise Solutions offers solutions for HR Professionals to support their organizations through the employee-caregiver transition.

The Policy Alignment – Buy in Success – Implementing Caregiving Policies report is designed for HR Professionals before launching supportive caregiving benefits and policies. These are uncharted waters as you introduce CareWise Solutions into your organization.

This report outlines and suggests policies that take you away from compliance to focus on an approach based on Employee Engagement. It’s a policy evolution and not a revolution. Quick HR results come best from a gentle hand.

Things are changing. If you are listening, the market makes the decision for you to introduce CareWise Solutions. It becomes an easy decision for savvy employers.

The fact remains that in forcing compliance, they almost certainly lack integration into your organization’s culture (“the way we do things around here”) and into the organization’s values and employee engagement practices.

HR departments are stepping forward to implement strategies for real change as their organizations demand real results-oriented business solutions.

CareWise Solutions offers solutions for HR Professionals to support their organizations through the Employee-Caregiver transition.

CareWise Solutions also trains HR professionals to facilitate programs that support employee-caregivers on the job.

Facts are essential for successful solutions. Most organizations lack the information to know their Employee-Caregivers and the challenges they face. The CareWise Solutions Program for HR Information Gathering – Surveying Your Team to Implement Successful Caregiving Policies includes information to Survey your staff and lead structured discussions.

This approach gets the quality data needed as the base to evolve your organization to become more employee-caregiver friendly. This starts with knowing your employee-caregiver workforce.

We suggest using this CareWise Solutions survey template to gather information from all employees as a starting point to reveal the extent of the personal and organizational challenges and to point the way toward solutions that will work for you and your employees.

When you add structured discussions to follow up with specific employees identified in the survey, you are on track for an ongoing dialogue with your employees that produces win-win outcomes for all parties. So here, the focus is on understanding the employee-caregiver composition of your workforce and the challenges that they face in the workplace and at home.

Achieving positive outcomes from Employee Benefits has long been recognized as a means to attract, engage and retain employees. This Is especially true with employee-caregivers. Many employee-caregivers are experienced, valued employees who are difficult and costly to replace.

Employers recognize that tailoring benefits to the special needs of what is now half of their workforce is good for both the employees and the business. Things are changing. If you are listening, the market makes the decision for you to introduce CareWise Solutions. It becomes an easy decision for savvy employers.

HR departments are stepping forward to implement strategies for real change as their organizations demand real results-oriented business solutions.

CareWise Solutions offers solutions for HR Professionals to support their organizations through the Employee-Caregiver transition.

Jeannette Galvanek, as a previous Fortune 50 HR professional, knows exactly what companies need to face major workforce transitions. The HR Professionals CareWise Solutions Program Materials gives HR professionals access to these “train-the-trainer” style resources.

For Employers, employee engagement is about productivity, employee retention and a competitive advantage. Employee-caregivers have a different perspective. They view their workplace engagement as the outcome of employer-led initiatives that provide them with an informed, understanding, and supportive workplace.

When an employer implements programs to support employee-caregiver engagement, it substantially eases the challenges of the dual roles of employee and caregiver. HR departments are stepping forward to implement strategies for real change as their organizations demand real results-oriented business solutions.

Creating Employee-Caregiver Engagement by Jeannette Galvanek, CEO of CareWise Solutions, provides the tools to implement the key processes to evolve your workplace to support employee-caregivers and build commitment, productivity and retention.