Some Companies Are Helping Workers Look After Aging Parents
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Companies have long seen the elder-care burden as a productivity problem; the focus has been on helping workers find services for their family members, and then getting the employees back to work. Now, in the first shift in elder-care benefits in years, a few employers are offering elder-care programs aimed at the health and well-being of the workers themselves. By encouraging workers who also have elder-care duties to take better care of themselves, employers hope not only to raise productivity, but to scale down health-care costs.
By Sue Shellenbarger
From The Wall Street Journal Online
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