A Good Daughter Leads Corporate Elder Care Programs in South Florida

Written by Thomas Cutler


Seventeen percent (17%) of caregivers quit their jobs to provide care for aging family members, and another 15% reduce their work hours to assist their loved ones. This shocking loss of employee productivity is hitting South Florida businesses very hard as more Boomers have senior parents who require caregiving.

The impact of Elder Care issues on corporate America will continue to grow as our elderly population increases: - Employees juggling job responsibilities with care giving are a reality inrepparttar workplace of today andrepparttar 144948 future. Workers are torn betweenrepparttar 144949 demands of their job andrepparttar 144950 ability to provide quality care to their relative. - One out of three American workers is also managingrepparttar 144951 care of an older relative. - Loss of productivity resulting from time off to care for an aging relative is estimated at $6100 per employee per year. - Caregiver stress accounts for a 27% increase in use of company health insurance benefits.

To stop this workforce hemorrhaging South Florida companies are looking for methods to provide assistance in caregiving to employees to keep them onrepparttar 144952 job and productive, while being sensitive torepparttar 144953 needs ofrepparttar 144954 employee.

Hot Hot Hot

Written by Kyna Morrison


What happened to Spring? It’s certainly HOT in Florida. It started long beforerepparttar first day of summer.

You did get your Spring cleaning done, right? Did you know you spent 40% more time cleaning because of your clutter? Ooops, someone told me you have clutter, sorry.

That’s OK. Withrepparttar 144947 kids out of school now and allrepparttar 144948 company.....nobody will notice your clutter. They realize it’s justrepparttar 144949 way it is at ‘your’ house. But when little Johnny asks his Mom, with you standing there........Mommy, "WHAT IS ALL THAT STUFF?? " I’m scared Mommy."" Are there creatures or boogie men hiding in there?" Mom responds," shhhhhhh Johnny, it’s OK, we’ll talk about it later." But I’m scared Johnny keeps saying. You pretend you didn’t hearrepparttar 144950 bratty kid, right?

The problem however, is how many times have you overheard similar conversations & whispers.

I realize, you’re too busy to get torepparttar 144951 clutter. Also have no idea how to begin.

It only gives you a headache when someone needs something out of that pile, orrepparttar 144952 other piles you have put in boxes. Then there’s daily stress it adds to your life. It’s tough, but just remember, you are not alone by any means.

There is a choice here. You can stop invitingrepparttar 144953 kids and your friends over. That would work. Of courserepparttar 144954 kids wouldn’t be happy, but they’d get over it after a while.

It doesn’t really matter nobody can put their car inrepparttar 144955 garage. With allrepparttar 144956 many, many boxes and piles out there. It’s better this way, nobody can hit anything inrepparttar 144957 garage backing out or in.

Rememberrepparttar 144958 day Aunt Josie ran intorepparttar 144959 boxes and it took a week to getrepparttar 144960 pile off her car and get her out? THAT wasrepparttar 144961 last day of usingrepparttar 144962 garage. How embarrassing? Kind of a funny story. However, not one to be shared! For what my two cents is worth. You have some serious problems. Life’s not giving you enough time for yourself or your family. You can’t ever get time back.

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