2022 DMEC Virtual Annual Conference: Caring for the Caregivers - A Key to Employee Retention

Employees are facing unprecedented caregiving challenges ? with more children and elderly parents in the home than at any time in the past 50 years. The resulting stress has accelerated mental health issues, job resignation, work disability, and economic worries. But help is available through community agencies and organizations, consultants, and other resources. Employers who take a proactive approach ? bringing problem-solving resources to their employees ? can avoid many of these undesirable consequences. In this session, we will describe the problem using current data and real-life scenarios and offer practical solutions that employers can implement immediately.

• Learn about the evidence supporting the impact of caregiving on productivity, retention and mental health.
• Understand why employers can have a key role in addressing caregiving issues.
• Identify 3 strategies that employees can use to reduce caregiving stress.