Your Company Needs an Eldercare Policy

Your Company Needs an Eldercare Policy

For the first time in U.S. history, the number of working adults providing care to an older adult (nearly 23 million) has surpassed the number providing care to preschool children (21 million). To help employees rise to this challenge, the authors argue, employers need to step up, just as the majority have done for childcare, by providing more support in the form of new and expanded business policies, programs, and benefits. The business case fo…