Caregiving and Work

• Forty two percent of parents of special needs children lack basic workplace supports, such as paid sick leave and vacation time.
  
  (Source: Ellen Galinsky and James Bond The 1998 Business Work-Life Study - A Source Book, Families and Work Institute)
  
• Women average 11.5 years out of the paid labor force, primarily because of caregiving responsibilities; men average 1.3 years.
  
  (Source: 101 Facts on the Status of Working Women produced by business and Professional Women's Foundation)
  
• American businesses loses between $11 billion and $29 billion each year due to employees' need to care for loved ones 50 years of age and older.
  
  (Source: National Alliance for Caregiving/Met Life Met Life Study of Employer Costs for Working Caregivers)
  
• Both male and female children of aging parents make changes at work in order to accommodate caregiving responsibilities. Both have modified their schedules (men 54%, women 56%). Both have come in late and/or leave early (men 78%, women 84%) and both have altered their work-related travel (men 38%, women 27%).
  
  (Source: Sons at Work: Balancing Employment and Eldercare, MetLife Mature Market Institute, June 2003)

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