Caregiver Competency System EAP

Most HR teams recognize the mental health and wellbeing needs of employees. What’s less visible, but equally impactful, is how employee caregiving responsibilities for aging parents quietly erode productivity, increase absenteeism, and escalate turnover risk. By the time traditional benefits are engaged, it’s often already a crisis.

Working employees caring for aging parents hit operational overload (appointments, meds, family). Work output drops, leave requests rise, some reduce hours or quit. Many HR organizations have no reliable, scalable method to prevent this beyond a policy and generic EAP.

ElderHonor provides crisis prevention training that reduces caregiver-related productivity loss by 100+ hours per employee per year.

Why This Matters

• 1 in 5 employees is actively caring for an aging parent.
• Up to 67% of caregivers miss work or reduce hours due to care duties.
• Productivity losses, burnout, and quiet attrition climb when support is absent.

“Caregiving support isn’t a perk — it’s a workforce strategy that preserves productivity and reduces hidden costs.”

You train your sales team before they talk to customers.
You train your support team before they handle tickets.
You train your managers before they lead teams.
Why wouldn’t you train your caregiving employees before they face the biggest crisis of their lives?
That’s what we do—we turn panicked caregivers into competent caregivers through systematic education.

Just the Facts

The Problem

• 61% of caregivers are women in their 40s.
• 67% of caregivers miss work or take unpaid leave.
• 61% of careers are impacted due to care responsibilities.
• 80% of caregivers 18-35 are extremely to moderately stressed.
• $5-6B lost in productivity, absenteeism, and replacement costs.
• 21% care for aging parents, spending 24 to 30 hours/week to care for them.

The Solution

• Employee training that gives employees confidence in making decisions and helps them develop an action plan instead of management by crisis.
• Topical videos, 15-40 minute in length, with 30+ assessments and worksheets.
• A community to ask and answer questions, see best practices, and access additional resources.
• Sessions with experts in aging, elder law, signs of elder abuse, aging-in-place, costs of elder care, understanding Medicare, in-home care, advance care directives, Alzheimer’s disease, palliative care, hospice, and more.

The Benefits

For Employees

• Peace of mind and less stress.
• Ability to focus more on their job.
• Confidence in making decisions on behalf of their parents.
• Developing a plan to follow instead of management by crisis and to see what’s coming.

For Employers

• Reduced absenteeism.
• Increased job focus and continuity.
• Lower turnover replacement costs.
• Better manager relationships.

Assets for your Employee to use

– A 7-Day Care Plan Sprint (guided workflow): Solves “I don’t know what to do next” and “no time to learn.”
– A 30-day action plan; appointment map; role assignment map; emergency script; task calendar.
– Components: medication list; provider roster; questions-for-doctor sheet; hospitalization checklist; home safety checklist, and more.

Standard EAP vs. ElderHonor

Standard EAP	ElderHonor Caregiver Competency System
Short-tem counseling	On-going caregiving navigation
Reactive support	Proactive guidance
Generic resources	Specialist elder care expertise
Crisis help	Early risk reduction

See how this works for your company.

Detailed Overview

All sources listed at bottom of page.

The graphics below provide information on the impact caregiving employees experience and on their company.

Generations defined

The number of caregivers in the workplace.^2,3,5

Types of care being provided by employees

Financial & Employment Impact⁶

Impact on employers¹

The ElderHonor Plan

Short 15-40 minute videos, 30 Assessments, and Worksheets

A Resource Network

With 10,000 people a day turning 65, there are many that need a network to help them through this time of their life. That’s where our on-demand expertise can help. Employees can join practitioner conversations whenever they want or just listen. Just knowing there are others on the same journey is comforting and we facilitate that within our confidential community.

Focused Learning

The community hosts specialists across many fields so employees can learn more about a subject, here new research, or hear how to work through the many issues that come up during this time. Some videos will be live but all are recorded and added to the library that can be watched at any time.

Our Program is Family Oriented

Your employees can impact extended family members to create
generations of confident caregivers.

Summary

Honor – Knowledge – Life

Company Executives

Add this offering to your benefits package to fill-in the gap where employees need that extra help with their
caregiving responsibilities. Employees can then make more confident decisions,
have less stress and anxiety, and be more present while at work.

Employees

Speak to your leadership to add ElderHonor to your benefits package to
help you on managing the health and wellbeing of your parents.

Brokers

We can integrate this offering in your current benefits for a fuller package to your clients.

Next steps

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hello [at] edlerhonor.com

Get the Infographic: Hidden Costs of Employee Caregivers
WSJ June 2024: When Caring for Your Parent Comes at a Cost to your Career

Sources

1. The Care Giving Company
2. How Employers Can Support Working Caregivers
3. Caregiving in the United States 2020
4. Supporting Employee Health and Wellbeing in a Changing Work Environment
5. Women and Caregiving: Facts and Figures
6. Caregiving In America: The Strain, The Pain, The Emotional Drain
7. The Caregiving Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities for Employers