Caregiving & Employer Support: What does it look like?
As summer approaches, we hope this message finds you and your loved ones well…or well cared for and as comfortable as possible. We understand the ebbs and flows of caregiving!
After a hiatus due to family caregiving responsibilities, we’re back in the saddle with what will be a combination of blog posts (albeit sometimes more brief than past) and episodes on our YouTube channel, Caregiving Insights. Oh, and stay tuned for later this year a soft launch of our new platform that enables caregivers to uniquely connect with each other! For now…
…consider the following:
10,000 baby boomers a day have turned 65 after 2010 and by 2030 all boomers will be at least that age.
That’s a very large number of people who are entering the years where their need for a caregiver is closer – if hadn’t already been needed. Thinking about that, it makes sense why over 50 million adults in the U.S. identify as caregivers. 50 million!!
Employer support of those caregivers is more important than ever!
With that in mind, I’m excited to have just posted Caregiving Insights Episode #6: Caregiving & Employer Support. In the episode, we addresses this topic with Diana Reyes, Communications Manager, Energy Transition & Sustainability at Chevron. She is a veteran of 25+ years at the company and has experience in many roles, all of which have provided keen insight into the topic of employer support.
When Diana received news of her father’s cancer, lots of changes needed to take place in order to support her dad, mom and family. Decisions had to be made quickly, which included moving across the country. How would Chevron and her boss support her? Could she work effectively in a remote situation? What would her husband’s work situation enable?
That and much more is in this episode, including family support, difficulty (impossibility?) of preparing for many aspects of a caregiving journey, how friends can best support a caregiver, the benefits of hospice, etc.
We hope you enjoy this episode! If you do, we welcome comments, thumbs up, and subscribers to our 1 Day 1 Week YouTube channel, Caregiving Insights.
Thanks to Diana for her time and insights!
Todd “TJ” Keitz has been primary caregiver/patient advocate since June 2018 for his two parents, who each are faced with serious illness. As Creator/Chief Blogger of www.1day1week.com, his goals are to: – to provide greater understanding about caregiving and patient advocacy. – to effect change in the U.S. and around the globe through helping to build bridges within families and communities. – to help the movement for economic changes in support of the millions of people who take on these noble roles.
Note: due to a technical glitch, the video feed of Todd during the discussion in this episode didn’t come through and a screen shot has been placed in the lower left.
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