The number of employee caregivers — those taking care of children, aging family members, or both, is growing. These workers need support in various forms, many of which employers are in a unique position to provide.
While the need to offer holistic parental benefits has become table stakes for businesses, an area that gets less attention is offerings that make eldercare more manageable. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports there are 37.1 million people providing unpaid eldercare in the U.S., 41% of whom are between the ages of 45-64. The majority of these caregivers (59%) are women, but men are increasingly taking on family caregiving responsibilities as well.
